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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."

Putting the app at the center, not the content, gives organizations ALL the power! 😔

Into the rabbit hole I go ...

(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. ...