Comment by latexr
2 days ago
> It’s not dead dead
It’s not dead, period. Not dead, dead dead, dead dead dead, or any other combination.
Yes, some integrations were removed, but on the whole you have more apps and services for it than ever. The death of the behemoth that was Google Reader was a positive there.
Maybe fewer people are using it, but the technology itself is fine and continues to be widely available and supported by most websites, which was the point.
Maybe Facebook and Instagram don’t have RSS access, but you can’t even navigate two pages on them without an account, anyway. They are closed to everything they don’t control, which has nothing to do with RSS.
I got the feeling that it was dead long ago. Sure there's plenty of readers and lots of sites "support" it, but what they tend to give you is a headline and article blurb feed with links to click through to see the ads. They don't want you consuming their articles through a reader. That's what makes it "dead" to me and a lot of others.