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You can't blame Meta for shutting down RSS given how many companies e.g. Cambridge Analytica abused open data access features for nefarious purposes.

It is still possible to access the data just via the official Graph API.

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Open data is actually very interesting as it comes to ActivityPub. A naive implementations means any motivated actor can suck up the entire Fediverse, using it for AI, ad profile building.

Open data like RSS is by design intended to be used by anyone for any purpose, yes, including analytics. If you aren't ok with that, what's next you want to move to some closed garden, websites?

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