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@jwz@mastodon.social @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer The problem with most RSS readers was that the read/unread state was tracked in the client. I used to read RSS feeds on my desktop and it was great because I could easily see new and unread things. A few years later, I wanted to read things on my laptop, phone, and tablet, and each one had its own RSS reader, so the state wasn't shared. I didn't use Google Reader, but it would have solved the problem that I actually had. I used NextCloud News (OwnCloud News back then) for a bit, but there were also other problems with RSS (full article vs summary, people messing up stable identifiers, lack of windowing leading to huge fetches, and so on). It's a real shame Atom over XMPP didn't catch on.