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When Google killed RSS. That was a definite slide against interoperable protocols and towards closed platforms.

• BeetleB 2y ago
  News to me. RSS is still around and it was almost a decade after Google killed its reader that my feeds stopped working.
  • adastra22 2y ago
    RSS/Atom was near universal until Google killed their Reader product and reduced support in other products like Chrome. From there RSS market share has declined considerably and consistently: https://openrss.org/blog/how-google-helped-destroy-adoption-of-rss-feeds https://openrss.org/blog/how-google-helped-destroy-adoption-...
• AnthonyMouse 2y ago
  It wasn't just RSS. Google search now deprioritizes smaller sites. "Ecosystems" have a network effect. If everyone is on Facebook and you want to be seen, you have to be on Facebook. But the open web is an ecosystem. If people are going to Google Reader or web search engines to find content then if you want to be seen you create a blog. But then Google murdered them, which damaged the ecosystem. In theory you could create a new search engine and a browser with solid RSS support etc. and if that's what people start using then you get the open web back. But that's a) not that easy to do and b) would have to gain market share fast enough that the things you want to index haven't already atrophied and died. So now we have to push the rock back up the hill and build something good enough that it can start gaining rather than losing usage share as an ecosystem, but this time learn from past mistakes. In particular, don't let anybody become a single point of failure like Google was when they decided to kill everybody.
• badgersnake 2y ago
  They also killed Usenet. Google has been a force for evil for a long time.