Andy BaioJun 30, 2023
The Verge goes deep on who killed Google Reader, ten years after its demise. I’ve always been furious about this, and somehow, reading this made me even angrier. https://www.theverge.com/23778253/google-reader-death-2013-rss-social
Who killed Google Reader?

Google killed Reader in 2013, shutting down its RSS reader after years of neglect. Now, the team that built it reflects on what they made and how the web has changed in the decade since.

The Verge
Show threadJohn GordonJul 1, 2023

@andybaio Google actually killed Reader Social first. The Reader product limped on for 1-2 years.

I use Feedbin now. Great product.

Show threadHardik PanjwaniJul 1, 2023
@jgordon @andybaio It was pure corporate fuckery. Not a single big company out there thinks about keeping a product alive unless it scales massively. No thought given to maintaining a digital commons.
Show threadJohn Gordon
@hrp @andybaio Google started out much better, but by the time Google Reader emerged they were already sworn to the dark. GR was among not-so-evil Google’s last products.
Jul 2, 2023 at 1:11amWeb
Show threadHardik PanjwaniJul 2, 2023

@jgordon @andybaio

Yup, don’t be evil died when they chose to chase after FB. The idiots did not realise they had an orthogonal social network in Reader that was much more resilient as finding people to talk world events with in a safe space was a need that was always going to exist. Now some of us are doing it in lemmy and mastadon and kbin.