RIP Google Reader

Article note: Reader is the best-case scenario of internet socialization; filter-feeding (with filters and a schedule you controlled!) on neat stuff people put on the internet, seeing neat stuff your pool of people with shared interests found interesting, and discussing it with them. It obviously had to go because it wasn't usable as a tool of exploitation the way modern social media is. I moved to self-hosted tt-rss, and it's lovely (though the recent move to "Absurd overkill container orchestration is the only supported configuration" is ... not my favorite), but the barrier to entry is much too high for the good network effects Google Reader could bring to bear.