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So, I'm fiddling with content feeds today and while #rss seems pretty legacy (few creators offer it), it's freakin' OPEN. People! Social sites own your data - you don't!

This article is almost 6 years old and spends a lot of words talking about whether RSS was too techie for "regular" people, which totally misses the point. APIs (which RSS is) are massively valuable even if not used directly by a consumer... www.vice.com/en/article/t...

A small mention of the real issue: "the war that Facebook started, seemingly accidentally: the battle to own everything." and "they [Google] need everyone reading and sharing everything through Google+ so they can compete with Facebook for ad-targeting data, ad dollars, growth, and relevance."

Into the rabbit hole I go ...

ChatGPT gets the answer right (1/3) "Facebook stopped offering an official RSS feed feature in 2013. At that time, they discontinued the ability to generate RSS feeds for user profiles, pages, and other content on the platform. ...

(2/3) "... This decision was part of a broader move to limit the open sharing of Facebook content through third-party tools and services, favoring the use of their own platform and APIs instead. ...