A look back at the evolution of RSS and why it lost out to centralized information silos on the web controlled by corporations, despite being an open format (Sinclair Target/Motherboard)

Sinclair Target / Motherboard:
A look back at the evolution of RSS and why it lost out to centralized information silos on the web controlled by corporations, despite being an open format  —  Before the internet was consolidated into centralized information silos, RSS imagined a better way to let users control their online personas.

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