[dmamills]

And we shall call it:

Real

Simple

Syndication

[imbnwa]

RSS was only part of the solution, the other half... was Google Reader: the homepage's "Suggested" section learned what you were starring/following and provided new content. I found tons of new stuff to read with that.

[deepakkarki]

RSS is as you mentioned, syndication. Not discovery.

I guess apps like feedly have RSS recommendations, but that's not the same thing.

[ricardobeat]

RSS made building discovery apps extremely easy. Today you can’t aggregate content at all most of the time unless you are the platform.