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How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds - Open RSS (openrss.org)

submitted 1 year ago by Crul@lemm.ee to c/rss@lemmy.ml

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Google removes RSS button from Chrome browser
Google acquires FeedBurner and limits RSS
Google shuts down Google Reader
Google removes RSS from Google Alerts
Google kills its RSS browser extension
Google removes RSS integration from Google News
Google's still at it...

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[–] Kaldo@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Tbh same, the only real use I've found for RSS is for some niche dev blog posts or dev trackers (the few that supported RSS at least) so I can have them all in the same place and don't have to check manually since they don't post often. Everything else was just bloated mess of shitty news articles with no real discoverability, just chronological spam. Then again I have the same issue with mastodon so it might be a me issue.

I also had issues finding proper tools to handle RSS. The few commonly suggested ones weren't free or even required a subscription, I ended up installing fluent reader but it's very barebones and finnicky, just the action of moving the source from one category to another takes a dozen clicks through unintuitive menus.