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RSS specifically is being replaced by reddit and well.. HN. The leading edge of people who adopted and used it, people like us have moved to HN and subreddits, I'm not sure outside our demographic rss ever caught on to any great extent. Whereas reddit especially is becoming popular with a much wider range of people.

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There is, nonetheless, a HUGE difference between you pulling content (subscribing) and other people recommending or aggregating content for you. One is subject to the One Off Problem, the other is not. One creates incentives to sensationalize/exaggerate/selectively omit and the other does not.

I don't think you're wrong. But I see here a fantastic example of what's been going on since the Reader shutdown fiasco, which is people comparing RSS to services like Facebook and Reddit, when RSS itself, is actually just an interchange standard, and what you mean is surely RSS aggregators.

I only bring it up because I worry that people might think they should stop providing RSS on their blogs. I hope that isn't people's takeaway because RSS solves a legitimate problem with decentralized publishing in a machine-friendly way.

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