Post #3530937
2026-07-02 09:22 UTC
@mjg59@nondeterministic.computer
As just one data point: in 2023, when Google Reader was killed, there were 69M WordPress sites.
In 2026, there are 600M WordPress sites.
That means that in the years since Google "killed" RSS, there are *at the very least* 531 million additional RSS feeds.
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@bovaz@misskey.social 2026-07-02 09:36
@jwz@mastodon.social @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer The death of rss was cultural, tho. It disappeared from people's consciousness, even in the tech sector. A couple years back, a friend working at a large multinational software company was talking with me about this cool project his backend colleagues were thinking about, that could revolutionize how content was distributed and updated in their infrastructure. He was really surprised when, unprompted, I revealed to him details of how it could and should work, and possible pitfalls they might encounter. They were trying to reinvent RSS because nobody in the company had even heard of it.