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Re:How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) by galaxyLogic on Saturday August 01, 2026 @05:14PM (#49138573)
And killing G+ killed a community. I lost many could be real-friends, whom I've never heard from since. That if anyting was Evil, killing a community.
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Re:How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) by firefax on Saturday August 01, 2026 @06:45PM (#49139284)
When I used it, it was popular among folks who would do photography as a hobby when attending academic conferences.

Tom Anderson liked one of my landscape photos, which briefly made me popular with the crew who'd roll into gallery showings for the wine and cheese.

(This was back before Instagram got acquired by Facebook and Obama let Putin take Crimea and Xi Jingping scoop up rare earth mineral rights in Africa.)

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