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bsder on March 12, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tim Berners-Lee: 'Stop web's downward plunge to dy...

> This has been on my mind a lot recently and I really think the biggest failure was not making the internet easy to use.

Why do people forget RSS?

RSS was awesome. RSS was "feeds" but in your own hands and under your own control.

Of course, it was doomed since it couldn't be monetized.

tedunangst on March 12, 2019 | [–]

Exception that proves the rule: daringfireball. Puts a weekly ad in the RSS that users don't care enough to filter. Collected an audience that advertisers will pay to reach without microteageting.

JohnFen on March 12, 2019 | [–]

RSS is still awesome. I use it constantly.

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