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

submitted 10 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/interestingshare@lemmy.zip

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Although RSS feeds are alive and still heavily used today, their level of adoption has suffered because of how difficult a handful of popular technology companies have made it to use them. Google, especially, has relied on the open web RSS protocol to gain so much market share and influence, but continues to engage in behavior that exploits the open web at the expense of its users. As a result, Google has single-handedly contributed to the reason many users who once relied on RSS feeds have stopped using them.

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[–] MrTolkinghoen@lemmy.zip 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This makes me want to investigate / get involved in using more RSS feeds. Never used them before... Idk why

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 10 months ago

You can get an RSS feed of any Lemmy community to be notified evey time there's a post there

[–] Nusm@lemmy.zip 5 points 10 months ago

I still use Gmail, Gcal, and Google Drive, but when they killed GReader is the closest I’ve ever come to dumping all things Google. In the end it was just too much hassle to move everything, let everyone know my new email, etc., but I’m still not over it.

That said, it’s not free, but I’ve been on NewsBlur since the GReader shutdown, and that’s been 10 years now I think. It’s very similar in use to GReader, and has got a lot of great features and customization options. It’s also run by one very active dev who keeps it updated, fixes anything that breaks, and answers questions on the forums. So I’m supporting an independent developer and not a company. It’s well worth the cost to me, and I use it multiple times a day every day.

[–] waratchess@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

RIP Google Reader

[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

I mean... Even if Google didn't do nothing most would be shit anyway or not exists because they usually either don't have ads or there isn't a nice way to have ads and much less tracking, most webs would have either removed them or it would be super basic where you have to enter the page to read anything.