rottenwheel@monero.town to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 months agoHow Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feedsopenrss.orgexternal-linkmessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up1187arrow-down18cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1179arrow-down1external-linkHow Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feedsopenrss.orgrottenwheel@monero.town to Privacy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square25fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareShamot@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up42arrow-down1·8 months ago But it’s clear that Google has a history of building products with RSS and killing the RSS support once it’s established a user base. Not only RSS. It was the same with XMPP, and probably other things I don’t remember now. Better don’t rely on Google products.
minus-squarepixelscript@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 months agocough cough gmail (I use gmail and need to stop)
minus-squareMidnight1938@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoWhat gmail do? Except the usual data tomfoolery
minus-squarepixelscript@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoThe biggest and most obvious encroachment on standard email that Gmail does is opting for a tag system over a folder system. It is superior, but nonstandard. If you rely on this, it’s Gmail vendor lock-in for you.
Not only RSS. It was the same with XMPP, and probably other things I don’t remember now. Better don’t rely on Google products.
cough cough gmail
(I use gmail and need to stop)What gmail do? Except the usual data tomfoolery
The biggest and most obvious encroachment on standard email that Gmail does is opting for a tag system over a folder system. It is superior, but nonstandard. If you rely on this, it’s Gmail vendor lock-in for you.