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What really killed RSS was Facebook and MySpace. https://utterlyboring.com/archives/2007/07/09/did_myspace_kil.php https://utterlyboring.com/archives/2007/07/09/did_myspace_ki... Before people started posting their thoughts on walled garden social media websites, you could follow your friends' blogs using RSS in your preferred reader. When your friends started posting on services that didn't publish RSS feeds, there was less reason to use an RSS reader and correspondingly fewer users of RSS readers.