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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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[–] 7 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Reddit killing RSS is the reason I'm on Lemmy. Those feeds have been in danger for a while.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Same here. I read both lemmy and reddit through an rss reader.

    Unfortunately the few subreddits I follow appear to be dead or non-existent on Lemmy but that means there's room to get it going

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

    @jaydom28@lemmy.today maybe worth following equivalent hashtags from Mastodon #RSS feeds? Plenty without communities you get something as hashtags at least, e.g. https://mastodon.social/tags/psvita.rss for following #psvita through RSS, while the only community I know gets a post about every other month from what I notice.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I have considered that! The thing I like about lemmy/reddit though is that I can follow a single RSS feed that dynamically mirrors the communities I follow, so I can just follow things natively on lemmy, and my RSS reader will pick them up.

    I was trying to figure out if Mastodon can do this but I do not think it is a thing 😞.

    I have some time to figure out what I want to do, though. Who knows, maybe I'll just add a few Mastodon hashtags. Thanks for the pointer!

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