I am an RSS user but it is pretty frusterating these days being one. All of the I guess "first tier" sort of sites you'd really want an RSS feed for don't have one any more or offer a truncated one that forces you onto the platform (yes I roll my own morss, doesn't always get the content). You are left with sort of second tier news websites that pollute their feed with reposted AP content you might even see on several same feeds you follow.
And the biggest issue is that no one is starting a new site and implementing RSS. Seems like for a lot of RSS feeds I follow, the only reason they still exist is because the webmaster has not yet culled the service for whatever reason; like some of these links are found on vestigial web pages that look like 2007 internet whereas the rest of the site is modern.
And it makes sense why RSS is dying. It is a huge free bone tossed to the community. You don't see free bones tossed out anymore without a string attached to pull you back into some profit making angle. Everyone wants you on their site so they can serve you ads. They don't want you using a feed reader and getting that content without having to see an ad.
On one hand I think it's a shame and I do miss feeds on certain (big) websites, but on the other it makes me appreciate the small web or indie web or just open web more.
Feels like rehab after two decades of 'social media'. But the open web is the ultimate form of social media itself, if you'd ask me. I plea for a name change of RSS to Really Social Sites. I already started calling it like that in my own software.
And the biggest issue is that no one is starting a new site and implementing RSS. Seems like for a lot of RSS feeds I follow, the only reason they still exist is because the webmaster has not yet culled the service for whatever reason; like some of these links are found on vestigial web pages that look like 2007 internet whereas the rest of the site is modern.
And it makes sense why RSS is dying. It is a huge free bone tossed to the community. You don't see free bones tossed out anymore without a string attached to pull you back into some profit making angle. Everyone wants you on their site so they can serve you ads. They don't want you using a feed reader and getting that content without having to see an ad.