Is RSS Dead?

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RSS is not dead for me. I've been reading news/blogs via RSS for many many years now. Self-hosted Tiny Tiny RSS instance and subscribed to 300+ feeds.

Sure, some sites drop RSS support once in a while but sometimes they will enable it again upon request.

If a website does not provide RSS, changes are small that I ever come back. If I really want to keep up to date with a site maybe I'll follow on twitter and try to generate an RSS feed from that :)

RSS is great. The biggest benefit is ofcourse that you don't have to visit every.single.site that you are interest in but also filtering and labeling articles really boosts my daily newsflow :)

I think what's really interesting, and I go into this in the article, that most RSS readers nowadays don't say anything about them using RSS. I don't think it's dead either, but I do think end-users will become less and less aware of it as a thing.

Not at all: https://blog.dornea.nu/2022/06/13/rss-and-atom-for-digital-m...

Based on the amount of RSS related posts here on HN, I think RSS/Atom is becoming again more popular.

I would agree that it actually seems to be going through a resurgence at the moment. The article comes to a similar conclusion by the end

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