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We used to have RSS. Why did it not stick around?

When Google Reader was killed, my account was just a stressful pile of thousands of unread items. The occasional gem was drowned in the noise.

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RSS is still here, but the major platforms don’t publish RSS feeds and make it hard to scrape into feeds. Facebook and Twitter don’t allow it. Google usually doesn’t.

I use RSS extensively to follow blogs and news sources. There are even many that put ads into my feed, which is cool by me.

RSS is technically still here, but it seems to me you're the exception here, not the norm. RSS is not quite as mainstream as it used to be

That's how I feel about social sites, unlike RSS I have no control about items, they just disappear in a sea of tweets. To me it sounds like you subscribe to a lot of spammy feeds.

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