you don’t miss Google Reader you miss the World Wide Web before 2012
— joanne mcneil (@jomc) March 20, 2021I do think folks have also conflated the generic ability to read RSS with the specific social networking features of Google Reader, so it’s hard to know which they say they’re missing.
— Anil Dash (@anildash) March 20, 2021i mostly miss everyone and everything having a blog and the ecosystem of search/discovery/utilities that supported it all
— Andy Baio (@waxpancake) March 20, 2021
I used to miss the reading/social aspects of GR until I switched to using my own website in combination with social readers like Aperture and Indigenous. (Aaron Parecki has a good overview of what it looks like; the space has grown quite a bit since his original post in 2018.)
I heartily agree with @waxpancake that the open web needs some better discovery options.
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