Post AXWETQeIHcQCcm9Wpk by jfred@jawns.club
 (DIR) More posts by jfred@jawns.club
 (DIR) Post #AXVzj352BEPuqeeNgu by daniel@gultsch.social
       2023-07-09T10:29:48Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       Did Google kill RSS by shutting down Google Reader?
       
 (DIR) Post #AXW0b5f0nphuULFPrk by dani@mathstodon.xyz
       2023-07-09T10:39:30Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @daniel What is Google Reader? It certainly did not.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXW2DBjWlwoeHV5eVs by sam@social.coop
       2023-07-09T10:57:37Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @daniel yes, pretty thoroughly. Many sites stopped using it at all, and the average person on the street no longer has any idea what it is or how to use it. It's been making a small come back in recent years, which is nice, but overall Reader decimated the feed landscape and it hasn't yet recovered.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXW55fn1RIpp2rphJ2 by raucao@kosmos.social
       2023-07-09T11:29:52Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @daniel No.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXWETQeIHcQCcm9Wpk by jfred@jawns.club
       2023-07-09T13:15:00Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @daniel In terms of overall usage: probablyFor those who kept using it afterwards: absolutely not. It's still a rarity for a blog I want to follow *not* to have an RSS feed; support is still pretty ubiquitous
       
 (DIR) Post #AXWFFzJ8j3aG16PeOO by drazraeltod@chaos.social
       2023-07-09T13:23:47Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @danielnah, but it nearly killed the ecosystem by creating reader as a pseudo-monopolyand it didn't recover fully since shutdownthat thing WAS a huge blow against RSS adoption - harder than should have been possible in a healthy ecosystem
       
 (DIR) Post #AYNj6qkWlzkOTrH9qS by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2023-08-04T08:37:57Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @daniel > Did Google kill RSS by shutting down Google Reader?I'd say Mozilla more serious harm was done by removing the built-in RSS support from the bookmark engine in Firefox. But RSS is still much more widely used than people realise. It's a crucial enabling technology for podcast subscriptions, for example. Millions of people have no idea they use RSS every day, just like with TCP/IP, SMTP, and dozens of other digital protocols.
       
 (DIR) Post #AYNjGitYpWc316D0tM by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2023-08-04T08:39:44Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @daniel There was a time in ancient internet history that people evaluated network technology by focusing on protocols. But for the last couple of decades, that focus has been actively shifted to *products* by PR and marketing people working for the DataFarms. That's why far more people have heard of Mastodon than ActivityPub, or Element than matrix.