#AskFedi: For people who used Google Reader and who (still) lament its death: what was it about Google Reader that made it different from other RSS readers, for you? 
@joepie91 the fact i had a group of friends who actively shared stuff that was interesting, in a way no social media since has managed to replicate
@marlies Hmm, could you elaborate? I've always known RSS readers as being a tool for unidirectionally following things like blogs, rather than as a proactive sharing thing.
@marlies Thanks, I never knew about this!
@joepie91 it was really great
@joepie91 you could subscribe to other users and they could share articles from feeds they deemed interesting. And if you liked it you could then easily also subscribe to the feed it came from. This explains it reasonably well: https://www.fastcompany.com/3013598/the-irreplaceable-draw-of-googles-aborted-social-network/