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.
Steve@atomicpoet I was ticked to see Google Reader get killed off. As part of dipping into #decentralized I stood up a FreshRSS instance a month or two ago. A self-hosted Google Reader clone. I also route a bunch of email newsletters through DuckDuckGo's email defanger and kill-the-newsletter, which converts emails into RSS Atom feeds.
To top it all off, I read it all with the Brave browser behind two layers of pi-hole. Makes for a very nice experience.