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How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (openrss.org)

submitted 8 months ago by rottenwheel@monero.town to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] t0fr@lemmy.ca 115 points 8 months ago (14 children)

I still miss Google Reader

And the internet as a whole moving away from RSS feeds in general is also not helpful

[–] cyd@lemmy.world 68 points 8 months ago (3 children)

The crazy thing is, they had a nascent social network going with Google Reader, populated by people who were engaged and interested in the content. And they threw it all away to chase a Facebook clone, which was doomed anyway.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 34 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They could've had basically Reddit if they added a way to have comments in Google reader. Then again, they would've never invested in moderation, so it probably would've turned into a shitheap.

[–] cyd@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

they would've never invested in moderation, so it probably would've turned into a shitheap.

i.e., basically Reddit!

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 18 points 8 months ago

Reddit tricked their own users into doing the moderating, that was their great innovation.

[–] thehatfox@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

Google+ could have been successful to a degree, in terms of features it was an improvement over Facebook in several ways. The problem was the invite only launch.

The invite period worked for Gmail because it was still interoperable with other email services, and made getting a Gmail address seem exclusive and desirable. Making a walled garden social network invite only, however, just lead to it being empty. Most who did sign up looked around for a few minutes then went back to Facebook.

[–] t0fr@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

They just seem to make wacky brain-dead decisions all the time and nobody really understands why they make the decisions they do.

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