Yes it’s true that these services can take the place of RSS in many circumstances, but it comes at a price. The great thing about RSS is that no-one controls it – you can’t buy it, block it or ban it. It adheres to one of the web’s founding principles; “information wants to be free”. Meanwhile Twitter, Facebook and Google’s founding principles are closer to; “information needs to be monetised”. Once these gatekeepers control what you see, and monitor how you interact with it, it’s easier to target advertising at you.
Apple joins the war on RSS by The Sydney Morning Herald
I admit that my own use of RSS has decreased significantly with greater reliance upon Twitter and tools that intelligently recommend articles from my Twitter feed. It is sad to see an open, accessible, and free standard slowly getting undermined by the push towards monetization.
Source: smh.com.au
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