@WClayFerguson @wilw that’s *sigh* , it doesn’t follow from what i wrote.
@WClayFerguson @wilw i like RSS. google killing reader was a shame. the evidence that google actively wanted to kill RSS because it was a “threat” just isn’t compelling. rss fizzled out on its own because it just isn’t a very compelling idea on its own. on the other hand, it has been extremely successful and never died, as the underlying protocol of itunes and podcasts. my apple tv uses en extended rss for all of its menus.
Let's just reword it that Google supported RSS in browsers until it acquired popular RSS aggregators, and then pulled the plug on RSS in browser. I remember very well how Feedburner was promoted among webmasters as an exciting and convenient way of making your feed popular, which of course was the way for them to get both sides hooked up and break any direct relationship between users and webmasters.
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@kravietz @WClayFerguson @wilw I am not sure what in-browser rss support chrome supposedly pulled. I certainly don’t remember it supporting rss any better than it does now
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You could also run your own RSS aggregator on your website, and most CMS supported this out of the box - I ran a popular Polish-language infosec blog at ipsec.pl back then, and had an aggregator that pulled many other infosec websites in Polish, and subscribed to its aggregated RSS.
At some point there was a lot of hype around FeedBurner and literally every "how to become a webmaster with X" tutorial recommended it just as they recommend GA or Cloudflare today.
