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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.
@Gargron The most telling portion of this article is the fact that people can't track RSS. Since everything is so data-obsessed, RSS doesn't make sense because you can't act on any metrics you're missing.
RSS works fine - content is distributed just as well as ever. The difference is that it's opaque and publishers aren't interested anymore.
@Gargron Even worse, readers (since Google killed Reader) started to hijack the share options so _they_ could collect data. Feedly redirected share links so they appeared as Feedly items, not as items from the author.
It's an old post, and I'm not sure they still do the same thing, but it was detailed here: https://mashe.hawksey.info/2014/01/thieving-feedly-pulling-off-a-twitter-card-heist/