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Re:Google Reader died – and why the web misses it more than ... by lapcat on Friday June 30, 2023 @08:42AM (#36533843)
> Google tried its best to bury the announcement: it made it the fifth bullet in a series of otherwise mundane updates and published the blog post on the same day Pope Francis was elected to head the Catholic Church... But as it turns out, the people who care about Reader don’t really care about the Pope.
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Re:Google Reader died – and why the web misses it more than ... by mikece on Friday June 30, 2023 @09:30AM (#36534526)
> But as it turns out, the people who care about Reader don’t really care about the Pope.

I grant you that the overlap is small but it's definitely non-zero. (A more interesting story is that Benedict was forced out making his resignation invalid meaning Francis isn't the Pope... but you suggested you don't care about the Pope. :-)

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Re:Google Reader died – and why the web misses it more than ... by ix-ix on Friday June 30, 2023 @12:30PM (#36537907)
What was really surprising was when we learned that the new pope also used Reader.
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