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Care to elaborate? Why an existence of a popular RSS reader has to do with preventing a protocol it is using from being more recognized?
by mkotowski 5y ago
Care to elaborate? Why an existence of a popular RSS reader has to do with preventing a protocol it is using from being more recognized?
- moritonal 5y agoNot op, but my guess is that by creating a centralised service which abstracted RSS away, it meant that when Google killed the reader it damaged the ecosystem as a whole, including the underlying protocol.
- gbrown 5y agoExactly
- grozzle 5y agoGoogle making Reader very good, and it becoming the most popular method of using RSS (for reading articles, at least - not for podcasts), and then suddenly killing it, can be seen as pretty much an "embrace, extend, extinguish" move.