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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/03/2026

I have a sneaking suspicion that someone at Google realized Reader's functionality (helping users discover, share and discuss web pages) was *exactly* what Google wanted us to use G+ for, and so they killed Reader in a bid to drive us to the stalled-out service they'd bet the company on. 20/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/03/2026

If Google killed Reader in a bid to push users to discover and consume web pages using a proprietary social media service, they succeeded. Unfortunately, the social media service they pushed users into was *Facebook* - and G+ died shortly thereafter. 21/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/03/2026

For more than a decade, RSS has lain dormant. Many, many websites still emit RSS feeds. It's a default behavior for Wordpress sites, for Ghost and Substack sites, for Tumblr and Medium, for Bluesky and Mastodon. 22/

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