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How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds(openrss.org)

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inverted_deflector@startrek.website
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Yeah google didnt help of course, but the internet as a whole pivoted from RSS. It still very much exists today and you have user friendly easy ones like feedly still out there in spite of the pivot, but the inability of RSS to go mainstream is more the result of how social media and apps dominate the modern web

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masterspace@lemmy.ca
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For many people, they essentially replaced or supplemented their RSS feeds with Reddit and now Lemmy. RSS nailed the technical challenge of publishing news sources, but people often don’t just want to read the news, they want to talk about it and critique it etc.

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