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by kemayo 3y ago
There's a bunch of replacements. I like https://newsblur.com https://newsblur.com but there are 4-6 large-ish similar sites.
That said, partially what people miss is the relative cultural hegemony of Google Reader. It was RSS front-and-center, prominently featured on websites, supported by the biggest company in tech, with all the users there and able to take advantage of the (sparse) social features.
- ghaff 3y agoPeople also miss the fact that, even if RSS wasn't hugely popular among mainstream users, it was certainly a widely-supported part of the web ecosystem. And it's more satisfying to rage at Google for RSS's relative decline than it is to blame the mainstream consumers who never used it or who moved to modern social media.
- kemayo 3y agoInterestingly, my experience is that it's still about as widely-supported as it was back in the Google Reader heyday, probably because the people developing these sites tend to be weirdos like us. It is less visible now, admittedly.