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Dear @mozilla
Please, please, please put the RSS indicator back in Firefox.

People need to know about this technology which empowers users over greedy, controlling corporations.

Update: As many have pointed out, you *can* use @thunderbird as an RSS feed reader, and there are many add-ons to restore the RSS indicator (one of which I'm already using). But my point is that Firefox needs to lean into RSS as an answer to all the crap that is the modern web, and help educate users about it

@RL_Dane @mozilla Back when the Mozilla Suite split into Firefox and Thunderbird, RSS was no longer part of Firefox. I don't think adding it back to Firefox is a good choice because it was part of Thunderbird. Instead, I think improving RSS in Thunderbird like integrating the Firefox sync feature is the most realistic choice.
R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:

@nawanp @mozilla

Also, while RSS reading might have been split off into Thunderbird, Firefox retained the ability to notify users of the presence of RSS feeds for a long time. Not sure exactly when it was removed, but it was definitely during the Firefox days.

@clacke @RL_Dane That was shortly after Mozilla bought Pocket 🤔