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Will Reddit Kill RSS Feeds
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this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2023
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Is it really a loss in revenue if you used a 3rd party app previously?
If you want to bypass Reddit, why not just set up RSS for the things you get from Reddit instead? Most news sites have RSS. You could almost certainly find a feed for most of the stuff posted to Reddit.
Most sites do not have RSS feeds now. I have to employ a lot of tricks to get RSS feeds for some sites I want.
Of the top of my head, the local county news site doesn't have RSS feeds so I have to pipe it through Google News.
https://news.google.com/rss/search?q=when:24h+allinurl:localnews.com&ceid=US:en&hl=en-US&gl=US
Same with Reuter's webpage. I'm certain they DID have a feed at one point that was killed.
I've never used Google news. Would love an instruction on how to pipe a site that doesn't have rss feeds through Google news.
Thing with me is I don't want the raw stream of dozens of articles each day. I've used RSS feeds with Reddit for years now using the Top Week feed for each important subreddit. I haven't been able to find a way to get that sort of curated information stream anywhere else. Essentially I get around the top 12 articles/pictures/text-posts each day that real people think are actually important for each of my interests. Open to suggestions, though.
Whether it's really a loss in revenue is not the relevant question to the people making decisions at Reddit. They're looking for sources of new revenue, and if they think they can monetize the feeds, then you know they will try.
Also, there is a slight cost to maintaining them.