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Eugen @Gargron@mastodon.social

Article on Techcrunch: "RSS is undead". First line: "RSS died"

I've become a lot more jaded about tech takes by tech magazines after Mastodon. RSS never died it's just not trendy enough that you hear people talk about it. Every WordPress blog on the net has an RSS feed. Every webcomic. Every news site. Including Techcrunch.

Linux Liaison @brandon

@Gargron I literally just read an article talking about how RSS has survived many RSS deaths in the mainstream (death of Google Reader being one of those)

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Eugen @Gargron@mastodon.social

@brandon The shutdown of Google Reader was super unforgiveable. Google Plus is dead af but Reader was an alive social network.

Linux Liaison @brandon

@Gargron I completely agree. I used it pretty much every day! Now I'm using IFTTT+Pocket

Don't lose against the cocks, Isobe! @roka@pl.smuglo.li
@Gargron @brandon I consider death of a botnet to be net positive, even if some functionality has been lost in the process
Linux Liaison @brandon

@roka botnet?

Don't lose against the cocks, Isobe! @roka@pl.smuglo.li
@brandon google is a spying botnet. I don't trust them at all.
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Linux Liaison @brandon

@roka ok

Tremaine @Mainebot@octodon.social

@gargron @brandon

reader was the best thing google ever did, and they killed it because it defied their own monetization scheme. Can't adwords if people get everything they want served up without an ad-filled medium. Being able to share and comment and tag and collate feeds was technical perfection.

Tremaine @Mainebot@octodon.social

@gargron @brandon

Plus is dead, and they killed Reader, but for some reason they took a run at google Wave: the most useless tool for a web that never existed. It was pure internal google culture masturbation.

Tremaine @Mainebot@octodon.social

@gargron @brandon

anyways I'm a ghost that rises from the dead anytime a discussion about google reader happens and I haunt people with my ceaseless moaning and old-man attitude.

Linux Liaison @brandon

@Mainebot
I'm one of those youngins and I completely agree with you, I was very sad, and mourned the death of Google Reader
@Gargron

Steve @stevewood@mastodon.xyz

@Mainebot @Gargron @brandon Didn't they pull the plug on Wave within two years?

avocado goblin @a_breakin_glass@cybre.space

@Mainebot @brandon @gargron I wouldn't call wave the most useless thing

avocado goblin @a_breakin_glass@cybre.space

@gargron @brandon @Mainebot just "a potentially useful concept mishandled really badly"

Adrian Cochrane @alcinnz@floss.social

@Mainebot @Gargron @brandon It would've been a wonderful tool for them to gather lists of your interests.

Linux Liaison @brandon

@alcinnz
🤷‍♂️ Like they don't already do that with any site that uses Google analytics?
@Mainebot @Gargron

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