Facebook is launching their “save button” for saving articles for reading later to allow websites all over the internet to allow saving, right on Facebook. This, in my not so humble opinion, effectively kills RSS, as a consumer blog and article consumption medium, once and for all.
It has been said for a while that RSS was dying (despite others arguing to the contrary), and warned bloggers and businesses that they should be finding other mediums, such as email, to replace that consumption format and ensure continued traffic and readership to their blogs. Sure enough, if you read Google trends, a natural interest in RSS fell by at least 50% back in 2013. People simply aren’t using RSS readers any more, and I’d argue if you even mention “RSS” people won’t even know what you’re talking about. RSS isn’t social. You can’t reply via RSS. You can’t share via RSS. Only social is social and Facebook just opened that (using “open” very loosely) to the entire web.