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mk  ·  4625 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Swizec Teller: RSS will never die
    His point about the 1% power users it completely accurate. Most readers of social news sites and online news in general have no idea how important RSS is for propagating the content they are presented with.

Agreed. I can see why Apple and Google want to remove RSS and instead push their own proprietary versions, but the universality of RSS is a big part of its success. This move really isn't a good thing, IMO. It's like railroads moving from a standard gauge rail towards their own specific rails. It's one thing to make web services. But it's another to make the web itself a service. Without universal platforms, innovation will lose out to energy spent on fighting over marketshare.