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I switched to feedly. No biggie, in retrospect.
But, that was the first Google product where it really hit home, to me, how even if a product is fantastic and useful, Google will kill it without a second thought.
It fundamentally changed my attitude toward Google and made me far more deliberate about what services I choose to rely on, especially from the big G.
Obligatory link to https://killedbygoogle.com/
I can recommend https://feedbin.com/ as a great replacement. It's $50 a year, but in return you get a service that is rock solid with an owner who is luckily very good in >> not << implementing features: no feature creep, no breaking changes, no BS.
RSS is only dead to those who don't know how to use it or lack imagination, what a weird thing to say really.
Personally I've been using it for a myriad of things ever since 2007, just recently I discovered you can add .atom to GitHub releases e.g. https://github.com/BLeeEZ/amperfy/releases.atom for a nice list of updates.
I like how neatly I can keep track of everything in one place without having to run around the web and deal with all the madness. If the feed is full of crap I can filter it out with www.feedrinse.com
RSS brings order to chaos, it keeps the signal-to-noise ratio under my control in a world bent on exploiting my web usage
I self host a yarr[1] instance. I love it, and it's pretty cheap to do so. RSS is still ubiquitous, if underground. Sometimes the feed links are hard to find but they're usually there.
1: https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr
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