Typical Google: ‘everything needs to constantly change for nothing to evolve at all’
I still miss Google Reader
And the internet as a whole moving away from RSS feeds in general is also not helpful
The crazy thing is, they had a nascent social network going with Google Reader, populated by people who were engaged and interested in the content. And they threw it all away to chase a Facebook clone, which was doomed anyway.
They could’ve had basically Reddit if they added a way to have comments in Google reader. Then again, they would’ve never invested in moderation, so it probably would’ve turned into a shitheap.
they would’ve never invested in moderation, so it probably would’ve turned into a shitheap.
i.e., basically Reddit!
Reddit tricked their own users into doing the moderating, that was their great innovation.
They only thought they moved away from RSS feeds. A whole bunch of the internet is built on Wordpress which publishes an RSS feed by default at website.url/rss or website.url/feed. Which means a shitload of sites are running feeds even if they don’t advertise it (or realize it).
Reddit still provides RSS for every feed page as far as I know. Users, subreddits, etc. For example: https://www.reddit.com/r/Lemmy/.rss
I just went back to RSS after some years and it’s just as good as I remember it.
I dont know anything about RSS, it worth it to learn and set my own?
Yeah just signup at Feedly and you’ll have no trouble
And it’s way better than social media
Preach it, brother.
Thankfully all the sites I follow still publish their RSS feeds. I fear the day when they start dropping off.
i miss reading quality cracked articles on rss. there isn’t really any article-length comedy anymore anywhere is there. it’s all dry stuff or deranged opinions
