@zens @WClayFerguson@fosstodon.org @wilw

It's not a conspiracy, it's a natural business strategy to increase your market share, as explained by Clay before:

https://fosstodon.org/@WClayFerguson/105669908866712953

Also, for the sake of clarity, Google did not *kill RSS* as a technical mechanism - websites still publish RSS but it's only used by search engines. Google just killed any *direct* relationship between website feeds and their users and replaced it with its paid & algorithmic aggregation model.