2023-06-30 12:18 UTC
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@mike@sauropods.win 2023-06-30 12:55
@davidpierce@mastodon.social A VP telling an engineer "Don’t confuse this for a conversation between peers" tells you absolutely everything you need to know.
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@cobalt@awscommunity.social 2023-06-30 13:41
@davidpierce@mastodon.social reading the history here is a flashback to many approaches I used to make internet content organized and really useful to me in both work and personal life. Reader was a big loss to me 10 years ago and then later Google Plus. Now getting braced for Gmail to be axed perhaps in sudden but typical Google fashion. Great article here.
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@shnonks@spacey.space 2023-06-30 14:10
@davidpierce@mastodon.social https://killedbygoogle.com/ Google Reader's demise is what sent me to Reddit in the first place. Now I'm on to the Fediverse, and, ironically, back to an RSS reader.
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@saiftheboss7@mastodon.social 2023-06-30 14:25
@davidpierce@mastodon.social Loved the article. Really well written and I loved how you showcased the evolution of Google's failure to build a social platform time and time again.
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@Rycaut@mastodon.social 2023-06-30 16:15
@davidpierce@mastodon.social I was one of those power users of Reader (though not for one hour a day - it was probably many many more than one hour each day) For me a huge feature that no RSS reader I’ve found since matches was the cross platform stability of Google Reader - I used it on my phone and my computer and it was a seemless transition with it keeping what I had read / hadn’t read yet easily in sync. I also leveraged custom rss feeds in lots of ways (feeds with anything referencing my startup etc)
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@stevenroose@x0f.org 2023-06-30 16:17
@davidpierce@mastodon.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr I still miss it.
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@tubbdoose@mas.to 2023-06-30 16:22
@davidpierce@mastodon.social I’ve yet to meet someone my age who has heard of RSS. I even had to explain it to the other web developers at my university’s student newspaper.
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@lelanicarver@universeodon.com 2023-06-30 17:37
@davidpierce@mastodon.social Thank you. Great read, would have missed it if not for #Mastodon -off to add TheVerge.com to Feedly. Ten years, and I still miss Google Reader.
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@pamelafox@fosstodon.org 2023-06-30 18:06
@davidpierce@mastodon.social I opened the article and just CTRL-F'ed for "Gundotra" since that's how I'd summarize it. :)
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@weisinator@mastodon.social 2023-06-30 19:26
@davidpierce@mastodon.social Reader is where I spent my lunch breaks, getting caught up on the 3-4 blogs I followed at the time. I still go back and read those blogs, but not as loyally. It's nice to see one of them still follows the same format that I enjoyed in the early 2010s.
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@dosidosankofa@kbin.social 2023-06-30 16:46
I still high key miss it, looking forward to checking this out
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@pabloniusmonk@mastodon.social 2023-07-01 15:25
@davidpierce@mastodon.social Really enjoyed your wonderful piece on @theverge@mastodon.world , David. I learned a lot about Google Reader. Had an inkling about the tension between Google Reader & Google+. But this explains just how corrosive Google+ was on other parts of the company. Last week I found out from @davew@mastodon.social that Mastodon has RSS support built-in. @mgs@me.dm has pointed out today that Twitter has just scrubbed out any last vestige of RSS support. https://mastodon.social/@pabloniusmonk/110573702248457009
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@bjn2@mastodon.social 2023-07-01 19:02
@davidpierce@mastodon.social still happily using Feedly. Google's whims are the core problem with relying on their apps.
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@brianbartky@mstdn.social 2023-07-02 00:02
@davidpierce@mastodon.social Great article—thank you for writing that. I was a big user of Google Reader and was saddened when they pulled the plug. I tried Feedly but didn’t like it. Next, I joined Twitter since most of the sites I liked had a presence there and I didn’t want to join Facebook. And when Twitter started its death spiral I joined Mastodon. 😀
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@opalium@opalium.net 2023-07-02 15:25
@davidpierce@mastodon.social I feel like "a better X we could've have but threw in the trash" is a recurring theme in the last few years, and this worries me.
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@hojomo@mastodon.social 2023-07-04 09:48
@davidpierce@mastodon.social So, 3days old? I came here after reading your latest piece - Where are we all supposed to go now? Thought I'd be able to boost it, yeah RT, like we used to do on Twitter, and NOTHING! Verge also contribute to the mayhem, because you don't give us an app to sign into - if we want to join in the comments (a la YouTube) we have to "Sign in & Join" - duh? But then Verge isn't trying to be social is it? Not even for money & ratings? I think, like we got used to subs for streaming.....
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@woozle@toot.cat 2024-12-10 00:51
@davidpierce@mastodon.social Why do you say "we"? Nobody except Google made that decision.
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@krupo@infosec.exchange 2024-12-10 16:13
@davidpierce@mastodon.social of course "Ultimately, Wetherell ended up spending some of his 20 percent time — Google’s famous policy of letting employees work on just about whatever they wanted, which ironically died about the same time Reader did — building Fusion into a more complete feed-reading product. It handled RSS, Atom, and more. After a while, he wound up showing it to the folks building iGoogle, the company’s recently launched web-homepage product. (iGoogle has since been killed, of course.)"