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From The Verge: “Reddit will stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13th” (thebrainbin.org)
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From The Verge: "Reddit will stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13th"

#Reddit claims that "RSS is 'now a common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse'."

Sauce: https://www.theverge.com/tech/1002788/old-reddit-ai-scraping

Maybe some frontend will add #RSSfeeds now, if there isn't any already?

Still, sounds to me like either, or both, a scapegoat and an engineered problem they now harvest the exact fruits they wanted from.

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[–] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

A billion dollar company that made their money off of the user's content, now gatekeeping the user's content completely. They make shit smell good.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I’d bet a lot of the valuable content that users freely gave to Reddit were from users who kept up with it all via RSS. Knocking them out of the picture, plus pissing off the old guard with the constant old Reddit removals, is going to shoot themselves in the foot. I’ve noticed a distinct lowering of quality and standards over there since the whole API mess when a lot of classic mods jumped ship over that choice. Seems like they’re well on their way to ruining what they had.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 month ago

    @seashanty928@lemmy.world can't say for others, but I also find RSS to be a good way to keep motivated on using a platform, even to keep posting to or interacting with, not just quietly consuming stuff. Even more so when its UI, UX and some times even userbase are miserable at best, RSS allowing me to avoid the problematic parts.

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