RSS is alive and well, even if Google Reader is no longer a thing. The subtext I get from this article: Big Tech didn't want RSS, because they wanted their own

RSS is alive and well, even if Google Reader is no longer a thing. The subtext I get from this article: Big Tech didn't want RSS, because they wanted their own silos/walled gardens. For awhile, Facebook was a superior feed. There's no reason why the superior feed couldn't have been built on RSS, except the desire for companies to control the whole thing. Or is considering that RSS did not replace everything on the internet 'proof' that it is dying? Big tech wants RSS to die. This is why they kill applications that are still popular, and why articles appear in the media talking about it being dead.