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Why did RSS fade away over the past decade?

I still rely on it heavily on my sites that have user generated content for sharing. It’s such a great way to digest information. Is it just because spammers were exploiting it?
gpt
it has been replaced with 'follow' on fb, ig, twitter, linkedin.  it used to be that people who created content had their own blogs on blogspot, wordpress and so on.  i used to subscribe to their rss feeds only as a way to get notified when they published something new.  i was subscribed to rss feeds 100s of sites, and all i had to do was to check the rss feed to find out who had posted something new.

now there are platforms for people who want to create and share content like facebook, instagram, youtube, twitter, linkedin to name a few.  these are closed user groups but they have 100s of millions of users.  if you are interested in content created by someone, you do a platform specific subscribe action, termed 'follow'.

most publishers using 'traditional' platforms (blogs, own websites, etc), still create accounts on these social media platforms and post short summaries with links to full content on their sites. now if you want to be notified of new content on websites, you create an account on one of the platforms where they have presence and follow them there.