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We used to have RSS. Why did it not stick around? When Google Reader was killed, my account was just a stressful pile of thousands of unread items. The occasio
by drdrey 9y ago
We used to have RSS. Why did it not stick around?
When Google Reader was killed, my account was just a stressful pile of thousands of unread items. The occasional gem was drowned in the noise.
- prepend 9y agoRSS is still here, but the major platforms don’t publish RSS feeds and make it hard to scrape into feeds. Facebook and Twitter don’t allow it. Google usually doesn’t. I use RSS extensively to follow blogs and news sources. There are even many that put ads into my feed, which is cool by me.
- drdrey 9y agoRSS is technically still here, but it seems to me you're the exception here, not the norm. RSS is not quite as mainstream as it used to be
- thescribe 9y agoThat's how I feel about social sites, unlike RSS I have no control about items, they just disappear in a sea of tweets. To me it sounds like you subscribe to a lot of spammy feeds.