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by webgurl83 3893 days ago
RSS still exists because Twitter and Facebook aren't open standards. I suppose neither are most RSS readers, but most of them will let you take your feeds with you if you don't like them. It also makes for better archiving than Twitter and Facebook, and I can have a lot of feeds in a central place, (without having to go visit a whole bunch of sites to catch up on what they're posting.)