Chris TrottierEveryone gives Meta and Twitter flack for the hellscape that is social media.
But you know who else deserves flack? Google.
They killed RSS so that everyone would use Google+ for news. Instead, everyone used Facebook and Twiter.
Oblomov@atomicpoet
I don't really think that's something that could be put on Google though. The migration off RSS to Facebook and Twitter had started before Google killed its Reader.
I don't really think that's something that could be put on Google though. The migration off RSS to Facebook and Twitter had started before Google killed its Reader.
@oblomov I think it kind of can be put on Google, though.
Google cornered the market on RSS readers. After it achieved market dominance, they killed it in an attempt to promote their social network.
This is textbook embrace, extend, extinguish.
OK, that's a valid point, although one could debate that e.g. Firefox removing ease of access to RSS had about as much to do with it as Google's EEE.
@oblomov Not to sound like too much of a conspiracy theorist, but it's apparent to me that the Mozilla Foundation has been compromised by Google.
Can't exactly say Firefox's removal of RSS was order by Google. Nevertheless, I very much see Firefox as "controlled opposition" if you will.
Anyway, by the time Firefox removed RSS they were completely de-fanged as a major force on the browser market.
But hey, I still use it 🙂
@atomicpoet
Eh, I don't know about that. Firefox has been massively mismanaged ad have at times lost focus on what they could stand for, but I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt of that being more a matter of incompetence and lack of focus in the leading positions than it being external pressure.
Eh, I don't know about that. Firefox has been massively mismanaged ad have at times lost focus on what they could stand for, but I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt of that being more a matter of incompetence and lack of focus in the leading positions than it being external pressure.
@atomicpoet (Hanlon's razor, was it?)
@oblomov No, I don't think it's malice. I just don't think Firefox will do anything to go counter to (probably) their biggest donor: Google.
This thought popped up when the EU tried to go after Google for their browser monopoly.
And who put out a big PR statement defending Google? The Mozilla Foundation.
So yeah, I'd say not malice -- stupidity.