I'm the last person to want to begrudge making a profit, but the move away from RSS is a blatant, deliberate move away from openness/user control and toward walled gardens. And ever since Twitter dropped RSS, I realized I'd rather do without the sites entirely than do without their feeds.
Meanwhile, huge swathes of the internet still use RSS and Atom or even the age-old approach of mailing lists. (And readers like Feedbin gives you an address to provide to mailing lists so you can follow those just like any other feed.) Every time I see someone say RSS is dead, I go and look at my unread article count.
I'm the last person to want to begrudge making a profit, but the move away from RSS is a blatant, deliberate move away from openness/user control and toward walled gardens. And ever since Twitter dropped RSS, I realized I'd rather do without the sites entirely than do without their feeds.
Meanwhile, huge swathes of the internet still use RSS and Atom or even the age-old approach of mailing lists. (And readers like Feedbin gives you an address to provide to mailing lists so you can follow those just like any other feed.) Every time I see someone say RSS is dead, I go and look at my unread article count.