There is not enough side-eye in the world for this: Google revives RSS.

Google, some of us remember Google Reader.

And we have not forgotten. And we have not forgiven.

@adders I still miss Google Reader! Though Feedly has filled the gap in my reading flow pretty nicely.

@adders Google Reader was ace! I bloody hated those muppets for quiet sometime. I will never forgive them for that.

@adders I’m with @wearsmanyhats that this sounds like another way for them to latch their tracking onto an open standard as part of their current “advertising and privacy can be friends” push.

@gregmoore And now I have “Oklahoma!” going through my head.

@adders I’m a very satisfied Newsblur user and happily pay for the service. Hell would freeze over before I’d let Chrome near my RSS feeds.

@pimoore @adders Dave Winer is describing is as “Google did so much damage to RSS, the thought of them “reviving” it is analogous to Exxon reviving the site of some huge oil spill, one that they didn’t contribute to cleaning up.”

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@adders

>”Do Evil”

@adders This isn’t RSS, just a version of Safari’s reading list. The reality is that RSS doesn’t always work, since most sites of note use ad impressions, not ad-free subscriptions behind a paywall. The web was never open, nor free (as in beer), not in its entirety, RSS ditto.

@adders 👏 I’m with you!

@pimoore I don’t know Feedbin, but I’ll go take a look now that you’ve mentioned it. Now, more than ever, I’m choosing a modular approach to the services that I use and pay for. That way my lifeflow is resilient if anyone of those services gets deprecated.

@pimoore email to RSS sounds interesting, I didn’t know that that was a thing.

@pimoore I just checked out Feedbin on your recommendation and it seems far too good to be true. That twitter feed integration is incredible and might solve my desire to avoid twitter, but need to follow certain accounts and subjects.

@pimoore I’m slowly and meticulously seeing which twitter accounts I really like and find inspiring and putting them into the Feedbin feed. Looks ideal.

@pimoore I just found out that you can subscribe to a Mastodon accounts via RSS.

Just add .rss to the end of an account’s URL, e.g. fediverse.partners/@duncanhart dot RSS

(NB I’ve deliberately written ‘dot RSS’ as the editor syntax doesn’t like it if I add .rss as a suffix to an @ identity).

@pimoore there’s a whole fediverse to explorer 🧭