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Re:Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) by Telemakhos on Saturday February 24, 2024 @07:49PM (#39496576)
There were plenty of RSS readers. Many browsers had them built in: Mozilla called them "Live Bookmarks" and even Safari once had an RSS reader. I used apps like Reeder and ReadKit and loved them, but my favorite apps were probably newsboat and newsbeuter (CLI RSS readers; newsbeuter goes back to 2007).

It's like people forgot that non-web-interface rss readers existed.

I still use some RSS reader apps to keep up with various sites I care about.

Also, remember that ever podcast is also an RSS feed.

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Re:Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) by mtrower on Saturday February 24, 2024 @10:03PM (#39497215)
> It's like people forgot that non-web-interface rss readers existed.

I'd wager that a lot of people never even knew these existed. To a lot of people, the browser became (or simply always was) the only real interface to everything internet related (or for some people, just about everything period).

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