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

    • BumpInTheNight [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      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)_/¯

      • Mouhamed_McYggdrasil [they/them,any]
        hexagon
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        4 years ago

        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