https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/07/rss-is-undead
RSS doesn't need more machine learning. It doesn't need "algorithms". It doesn't need a business model. It doesn't need to be friendly towards tracking and monitoring user behavior. It absolutely shouldn't care about branding.
Really RSS should just be about reading, and nothing else. The client can do fancy processing of feeds, but the protocol doesn't need to care about that.
RSS is undead
RSS died. Whether you blame Feedburner, or Google Reader, or Digg Reader last month, or any number of other product failures over the years, the humble protocol has managed to keep on trudging along despite all evidence that it is dead, dead, dead. Now, with Facebook’s scandal over Cambridge Analyt…