[simianpirate]

I still mourn the loss of Google Reader.

[thethimble]

This is the most hilarious meme on HN

[least]

Meme or not, it legitimately was my favorite "social media" site ever. I'd read interesting things on my feed, and share it to a pool with my other friends, who'd also share the interesting things they read, and we'd all be able to discuss it. It was like reddit but just for my group of friends. It was great.

[veave]

Nothing ever came close. I simply stopped using RSS altogether.

[zeroonetwothree]

Same here. Although TBH I feel like it was mostly a waste of time. Now I can waste time in different ways like reading HN or reddit

[Golden_Wind123]

It also doesn't help that most sites broke their RSS feeds.

[nirui]

Please stop it.

I watched the recent developments to Twitter, Google and Reddit, and loved it all.

One way for self-hosted service to catch up is to wait for the big companies to mess up, and they're messed up very well at this moment.

Google previously changed their account expiration policy, and decided to lock users out of their usernames instead of allowing the old owner to re-active it, making the expiration permanently destructive for the user.

This effectively told their users that use of Google services is not "maintenance-free", you have to constantly engage with Google to keep it alive. And funny enough... maintenance costs is one of the reasons why people choose to abandoned their soft-host services.

Now the pendulum swings another way, it's great.