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> Mostly because of Twitter and Facebook metadata. sounds like your saying a site has to use Facebook and Twitter if they want to achieve the same thing as an

• Semiapies 8y ago
  Three; you're forgetting Datastreamer itself. I'm the last person to want to begrudge making a profit, but the move away from RSS is a blatant, deliberate move away from openness/user control and toward walled gardens. And ever since Twitter dropped RSS, I realized I'd rather do without the sites entirely than do without their feeds. Meanwhile, huge swathes of the internet still use RSS and Atom or even the age-old approach of mailing lists. (And readers like Feedbin gives you an address to provide to mailing lists so you can follow those just like any other feed.) Every time I see someone say RSS is dead, I go and look at my unread article count.
• rhizome 8y ago
  sounds like your saying a site has to use Facebook and Twitter if they want to achieve the same thing as an rss feed. Worse: a site has to scrape FB and TWTR to achieve the same thing. I'm baffled how anybody who even knows what page-scraping is could think of it as an improvement over RSS.