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How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (openrss.org)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago (3 children)

They only thought they moved away from RSS feeds. A whole bunch of the internet is built on Wordpress which publishes an RSS feed by default at website.url/rss or website.url/feed. Which means a shitload of sites are running feeds even if they don't advertise it (or realize it).

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Most good podcasts offer an RSS feed too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Podcasts by definition are all RSS based, but Spotify, Amazon and other VC based distributors are trying to change that with subscription and exclusive content.

Even those are still announced via RSS I believe though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

True. But they did make it more difficult to discover RSS feeds by removing all those features.