Replied to a thread by joanne mcneil, Anil Dash, Andy Baio (Twitter)

you don’t miss Google Reader you miss the World Wide Web before 2012
— joanne mcneil (@jomc) March 20, 2021

I 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, 2021

i 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.