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About a decade ago, the average internet user might well have heard of RSS. Really Simple Syndication, or Rich Site Summary—what the acronym stands for depends on who you ask—is a standard that websites and podcasts can use to offer a feed of content to their users, one easily understood by lots of different computer programs. Today, though RSS continues to power many applications on the web, it has become, for most people, an obscure technology.
The story of how this happened is really two stories. The first is a story about a broad vision for the web's future that never quite came to fruition. The second is a story about how a collaborative effort to improve a popular standard devolved into one of the most contentious forks in the history of open-source software development.
Who killed RSS?
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by VLM on Tuesday January 15 2019, @12:45AM
I suspect its propaganda along the lines of "when did you stop beating your wife?" leading questions.
I certainly don't see much change in use or quantity of info from my newsblur use.
My guess is "big social media" is dying so a short term reaction is to declare everything else dead especially competitors.
Also this topic comes up every six months in the news cycle much like the old days when "LSD is coming back" was a standard every six months topic in the 80s for legacy media. Its possible there really isn't any story at all other than this gets run every couple months/years as a filler. Not so much here, but on clickbait sites that get picked up etc.