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This one is (was) pretty important.
replyThe hyperscalers stopped that timeline from winning, though.
How is this the hyperscalers fault?
replyYouTube had atom feeds and I don't think Amazon and Microsoft have relevant syndication.
Meta is surely responsible but that's it, imo.
YouTube still does
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GitHub too for their releases; you just add /atom to get the feed, which works great.
replyGoogle on several occasions took moves to make the web less semantic.
replyThey dumped microformats and standards in favor of soupy error tolerant formats that benefitted their search engine and made it harder for other efforts to make information shareable and accessible.
They wanted it to be easy to get information in, but for you to have to go through them to get information out.