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> The destruction of RSS greatly damaged the Blogging ecosystem.

Since when is RSS "destroyed"? I still use it every day.

Okay Google Reader specifically died. But honestly it wasn't all that great. There are dozens of other RSS readers that still work fine.

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What bugged me was when Apple removed RSS from Safari. I used to have a menubar list of sites that I would read regularly and I could go to the bottom and select open all in RSS and read everything. Having to use a dedicated RSS reader really feels like a step backwards.

> Having to use a dedicated RSS reader really feels like a step backwards.

Not if you use a web-based RSS reader (I use Nextcloud News for this purpose) since that is always just one link away on any browser you might happen to use. This is far more convenient than having your 'feeds' in a specific browser on a specific device.

Ok but I detected that now there are less posts than 10 years ago, and I have the same feeds or more

People get old, and do not write new posts in their blogs

Young people, most dont use blogs, they use fb, ig, ..

I do find it plausible that there are fewer things being posted in RSS-able blogs than 10 years ago, but if so, you wouldn't be able to tell that way. Especially if what you're following is a lot of individual blogs, it's pretty normal that at least some people get tired of blogging for any number of reasons over the course of a decade and stop or slow down. If you want to keep the same amount of total content, you have to constantly look for new blogs to follow.

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