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I realize such sarcasm is less appreciated here on HN. But this eye-rolling response encapsulates my reaction too perfectly.

It's also interesting to see RSS touted as a _less-outdated_ solution over email, given the industry has been trying to kill RSS for decades and is far more hostile to RSS than mailing lists.

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With the industry you mean mostly 'Google'. RHEL and most other distros, Firefox (and Vivaldi) and python come with the tools to read RSS feeds.

It would be interesting to know how many actually relied on these lists instead of the customer portal or Cockpit/Satellite to be informed about this.

I do blame Google, almost entirely. But it's not just about readers, it's also about the content (publishers).

Google Reader's death certainly was the beginning of the end, and it sent shockwaves throughout.

Platforms like WordPress kept RSS alive, but then you have major publications that redesign and entirely leave out RSS.

Without mainstream reader adoption you have less and less mainstream publishers

google didnt see that precious advertisement income...

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