I have never stopped using RSS for nearly 20 years now.
The beauty of RSS and RSS client is that I choose my own source. And RSS client compared to FB tends to be much higher information density, Command Click to open everything I like in new Tab and I have lots ( and too many ) to read.
I think twitter replaces some form of blog post more than anything.
Mostly the way it worked out is that a lot of advertising for blogs and other websites dried up and shifted to Facebook and Google.
This isn't the whole story, certainly, but it's probably the biggest story of what happened. While I'm excited about shifts to membership, I do think fundamentally the advertising landscape also needs to change.
I remember when Firefox destroyed my RSS bookmarks with no opportunity for recourse.
The recourse is addons.
Destroying bookmarks goes a bit beyond what addons can fix.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/feed-reader-replacement...
It didn't destroy them. It turned them static and can also create a `Firefox feeds backup.opml` that can be imported by feed readers.
Sure this may not be the best situation but they didn't simply destroy live bookmarks.
How'd that work out?
I'm really glad to see smart Publishers like Ben Thompson looking to head the Aggregators off at the pass.