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The most fascinating bit for me is that people actually used any of the social features of Google Reader. I just read my feeds and interacted with nobody, and t
by wink 4y ago
The most fascinating bit for me is that people actually used any of the social features of Google Reader. I just read my feeds and interacted with nobody, and that wasn't too uncommon in my circles.
- rsynnott 4y agoOh, I’m not sure how many people ever used Google Reader’s _own_ social features. But RSS facilitated social networking via blog (remember, for a while ~every blog had comments and trackbacks, on which twitter quote-retweets are based), and, unfortunately, Reader became so synonymous with RSS that its death largely killed that ecosystem. It was really noticeable at the time; blog activity really fell off, and even if you switched to an alternative RSS reader which stayed working (a lot of readers used Reader as a backend!) you had to switch to Twitter to keep up with what was going on.