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Chris Cunningham

@tomw the biggest thing that killed off the blogosphere (most of which was on Google-owned Blogspot) was Google shutting down Reader, in yet another incredibly terrible decision

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Daniel Sandbecker

@chriscunningham @tomw Yes, but that was only so impactful because we had allowed it to effectively centralize RSS. It was not technically centralized but behaviorally. Cautionary tale.

Chris Cunningham

@d_s @tomw the exact same thing happened with XMPP - nobody really used it until Google bought into it completely (it's still the basis of android's message bus IIRC) with the original google chat, which they then de-federated and then killed off

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