I'm not completely versed on the subject, but from my understanding RSS was actually intentionally killed off in a premeditated manner as it allowed users to choose how they interacted with the endless feed of streams that were emerging from some social media corners of the 'net. They wanted control, complete control, over what you would see and what you would have to scroll for hours to see and what you'd never see even if you scrolled forever. There was also some beef between Atom vs RSS I guess, which contributed to its downfall. But I remember using shit like Google Reader and having a level of control unimaginable to propriatery feeds like FaceBook and InstaGram.
So I say, bring it back! Lets have an RSS Renaissance, (I guess this is technically an XML doc, but it severs the same purpose). I've been wanting this to happen for years now, this is actually a fairly political issue and I hope everyone takes the correct side on it
Uuuhhh yeah you're completely misinformed. RSS has existed uninterruptedly for nearly 20 years and is on most major sites
I'm talking about consumer-facing RSS, I know tons of site still use it for internal stuff and interfacing with other tech, but a chart is worth a thousand words
Reddit have it: https://www.reddit.com/r/republicofmusic/.rss
Youtube has it: https://youtube.com/feed/channel/UCm9K6rby98W8JigLoZOh6FQ
Most sites have it: BBC, Al Jazeera, everything ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
You can't possibly think that needing to modify a URL by hand is Consumer-Facing, right? Irregardless of whether or not he actual phyiscal RSS feed still exists or was removed, most websites have hidden them in dark places so unless you knew that, you wouldn't be able to get the feed since they deleted the little icon that shows you where they are