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Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by D13Fd on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @08:30AM (#43025215)
There still is no replacement for Google Reader. The difference is that there was a community around Reader’s social features. That only really works with wide adoption, and it’s a lot easier for people to adopt a Google product than a random company x one. Today, there are many replacements with the mechanical features of browsing & sync, but the community will never come back.

The other problem was that Google killing Reader was a signal to the broader web to move away from RSS. RSS has kind of limped along since then.

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Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by baud147258 on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @12:28PM (#43027524)
> The difference is that there was a community around Reader’s social features.

Are social features the main selling point of RSS readers? I mean I just use mine to know when there's a new blog post/webcomic posted on a few sites I follow, without having to give my email or use another platform like social media to know about it. And I'd use the social features which are present on the blogs, under the control of the blog owner(s), if there's any. Or maybe my use case is not the most common one?

Though I agress about the signal Google sent by killing GR.

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