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How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (openrss.org)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

cough cough gmail

~~(I use gmail and need to stop)~~

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What gmail do? Except the usual data tomfoolery

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

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.