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Will Reddit Kill RSS Feeds (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by curt@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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I just set up all the subreddits I still want to following in Reeder, an RSS app. I'm able scroll through the posts ad free. It the occurred to me that this is a loss of revenue to Reddit. Could RSS be the new target for onerous fees?

It could be the case that RSS usage is small compared to 3rd party apps like Apollo so not of much concern. It also may be the case that it isn't possible for Reddit to charge for the usage. If they can't charge, they may just disable RSS altogether. I'm only guessing. I'll take off my tinfoil hat now.

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[–] LynneOfFlowers@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shhh no one tell spez there's still RSS feeds

[–] NicoCharrua@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Reddit tried to remove https://i.reddit.com, but they forgot that you could also access it by going to https://reddit.com/.i

Wouldn't be surprised if they would remove RSS feeds but forgot they exist

[–] bhaak@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

WTF? I never knew this existed.

How can this still be there? They didn't rip out the code that generated this pages but only the redirects? I'm always surprised how shitty Reddit's development is.

Either that or somebody was deliberately specificly resolving the issue "remove the .compact and i.reddit.com view". :)

[–] Xero@infosec.pub 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep I just finished setting up Feeder for the websites I read most and a few subreddits.

[–] ddugue@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you have a good way to find rss feeds? I'm looking to emulate my own hacker news in terms of non-tech interesting articles, and sometimes I feel lost trying to find feeds to subscribe to

[–] ocin@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

For news sites and blogs built on wordpress (most of them are) you can just add /feed to the url. E.g fivethirtyeight.com/feed

[–] kaffeebohne@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

i would if was them.

[–] simonced@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think reddit has merit on blocking RSS, because you can't act on the posts, no comment, no upvote etc... You'll have to visit the site directly to do so. But I might be wrong, I just don't think it's their priority.

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Their major reason for this was that data can be scraped for free, so imagine RSS is a big data scraping interface, it will be gone or will get cut in terms of letters.