According to Google Trends, during the past few years, there has been nothing but a few minor bumps that faded away as quickly as they came. I love RSS because i do not have to scroll through dozens of different news sites all day and i would love it to return.

EDIT: Typical case of people only reading the headline. I was asking why people are hyped over something that did NOT happen.

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      People who are looking for a good RSS client for their phone?

      People hoping that it would give a web page/post with a curated list of RSS URLs.

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          please correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe that this graph included any search with RSS in your search query. Otherwise it works be useless as people rarely search for something with just a single word.

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      the subset of those who do not use a proper search engine who want to know what a RSS is.

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        Beyond that, though, who the fuck would use Google’s search popularity as a metric for the popularity of a technology. Those who use it aren’t searching for it all the time. OP is dumb.

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          who the fuck would use Google’s search popularity as a metric for the popularity of a technology

          that’s been a leading indicator of popularity for a long time now.

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          Search popularity is something like the first derivation (read: change in) popularity of a technology.

          Calling people dumb is ableist.

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    Unpopular opinion but I switched from RSS to Google News and Reddit / Lemmy for basically 2 things:

    I like the Google algorithm for news (guess that’s why it’s called that) it shows relevant news, especially local. When I subscribed to local news papers’ RSS, for example, they pump a lot of articles and the relevant news were difficult to spot. It still lags behind on tech news for instance.

    I switched to Reddit because of the community content: conversations. On RSS you get all the news and all that but it lacks the social aspect, people discussing an article, learning from others. This is why I’m still here.

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    i would love it to return.

    RSS never died though, I have at least 50 web sites that I follow.

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    Most RSS feeds suck these days because sites just half ass those and put a link and 1 sentence inside, if even that.

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      If you’re not getting a full text feed for articles try changing your feed app (assuming android). I’m using handy News reader (flymm fork on F-droid). It retrives the full article text for all my feeds.

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      Opening paragraph on Wikipedia explains it pretty well

      RSS (RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication)[2] is a web feed[3] that allows users and applications to access updates to websites in a standardized, computer-readable format. Subscribing to RSS feeds can allow a user to keep track of many different websites in a single news aggregator, which constantly monitor sites for new content, removing the need for the user to manually check them. News aggregators (or “RSS readers”) can be built into a browser, installed on a desktop computer, or installed on a mobile device.