I use RSS (as a user) every single day. It's one of the core technologies I use. Although I've been hearing that it is dead for years now, it is very much the opposite for me!
To be honest, I was quite surprised to read about the "death" of RSS in Motherboard, I would have hoped they would rather write about how alive it still is despite uncountable attempts by tech and press Goliaths to get rid of it...
Being forced to choose to visit each website or to basically surrender to Facebook's or Google's interpretation of "what I should focus my attention to" seems surreal to me.
I understand that I'm surrounded by people who enjoy these choices being taken for them, but for me, RSS feeds are still my gateway between the web and my time.