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Re:RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News by nl on Saturday September 09, 2017 @06:57AM (#15206499)
You mean the lost world of FriendFeed/Google Buzz/PubSubHub.

It seemed like a great idea, but the social features really didn't work. People dumped their RSS feeds, but the decentralized nature meant that attempts at flowing comments between sites ended up losing context.

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Re:RSS Still Beats Facebook and Twitter for Tracking News by 0x445442 on Saturday September 09, 2017 @10:43AM (#15207289)
I was the guy that really liked Google Buzz. I think it was it was tightly integrated with Gmail.
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