That's partly in response to platforms eating the open web. It's there, if you want it.ДЇeedly, for instance, has for the last two years gravitated toward being a tool for research rather than passive entertainment.

It continues to power podcasts (despite Apple's and Audible's best efforts to replace it with their proprietary tools) it is the primary means by which the platforms suck content out of us plucky publishers. I use Newsblur, and pay for it, and always have a tab open to it. Wired's Brian Barrett investigates the fragile, but growing, ecosystem of RSS readers, five years after the Google extinction event, and finds some very promising green shoots. Using RSS in 2018 is a path to a better web and a superior information diet. RSS reader development ramped up and the people who relied on RSS downgraded to these underinvested readers, sticking with them while their plucky developers worked their guts out to build up usable, reliable products that continued to deliver the a window into the web, not mutilated by the unaccountable, opaque algorithms of the social platforms. RSS was a revelation for blogging and online media we got our first RSS feed in 2001 and I have relied heavily on RSS feeds to write this site (and stay informed) for nearly two decades now in 2005, Google bet heavily on RSS with its Google Reader product, which quickly eclipsed every other reader, so that by the time they killed it in 2013, there wasn't anything sophisticated, robust and well-maintained to switch to.

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