And don't get me started on the absolutely screwed up, hilariously misguided decision by Mozilla to remove the RSS/Atom button from the default Firefox UI a long while back.

You absolutely hopeless nincompoops!..

unsure if it'd been linked at all (post replies haven't back filled yet) but I use an addon to get some of the auto-detection back. Not ideal having to do so but eases it a bit!

github.com/robalexdev/blog-que…

GitHub - robalexdev/blog-quest: Collect RSS feeds as you browse

Collect RSS feeds as you browse. Contribute to robalexdev/blog-quest development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

#notallmediaorganizations

podnews.net - it's literally in the nav bar.

Podnews podcasting news

Daily news for the podcast and on-demand audio industry - from Apple Podcasts to Spotify, YouTube Music to Joe Rogan. Podnews also covers the latest jobs and events and trending shows in a short update every weekday. editor@podnews.net

^{James Cridland (Podnews)}

in a previous employment, a university news site used RSS extensively, we setup the news site with tags for departments, programs, etc and the corresponding sites or microsites consumed the news which kept them looking very fresh!

I agree not enough organizations do this

I dive into news websites or blog source code to find an RSS link whenever I find an interesting site that isn't on #Mastodon.

Through #RSS and RSS Parrot I can pull them into the #Fediverse and subscribe to their feed right here.

More at: rss-parrot.net

wholeheartedly agree with you! You should shout this from the rooftops!

Now, I wanted to email my normie friends to say: if you wanna know what I’m up to, you could follow my Fedi profile(s)’s RSS feeds…

I absolutely LOVE this about Fedi software.

Anyway I realized that virtually none of my normie friends use RSS feeds. Which is really sad. I need to share with them @molly0xfff ‘s superb post first citationneeded.news/curate-wit… 🥲

Curate your own newspaper with RSS

Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read

^{Molly White (Citation Needed)}

Can you track engagement?
Can you tailor advertising?

I don't know, but I'm guessing they do. 😒

I think a big reason is advertising and tracking.

RSS feeds bypass most trackers, analytics, and user profiling, so readers become largely "invisible" from a monetization point of view.

RSS gives control back to readers instead of platforms — and that’s precisely why it’s not encouraged.

On my site, there is RSS 😉

@elmine um, I actually blame the non-considered inclusion of RSS feeds in newspaper website systems in the 90s for the fact people expect their news for free. Newspapers don’t want to reach an audience; journalists do. Newspapers want to keep paying journalists and thus have copyright/control/make money. And they don’t make any off you not going to their website.

(As an idealist I feel similar to you but I also know journalism takes a lot of time and can’t be done as a hobby)

@pluralistic Browsers used to auto-find and put an RSS button in the URL bar.

Used to.

I kinda understand why they stopped, but I wish it was a user-selectable option so power users could easily find those feeds. Also, it would allow for the creation of a viral TikTok video about a “secret option” to break free of algorithms which would do more for teaching non-technical users about RSS than anything else ever written.

I subscribe to a lot of RSS feeds via @NetNewsWire and News Blur.

None of the RSS feeds show any adverts from the newspapers or other publications I follow. Maybe this is why some don't market their feeds.

helpful
rsslookup.com/

also know, GaleOneFile alerts through your public library provide free full-text access to many many paywalled sites: Economist, Barron's, WaPo, etc.

So true.

Mind you, many websites do have an RSS feed but don't publicise it (mostly, I suspect, due to ignorance).

I use addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firef… to find "hidden" RSS feeds to follow (on my frendica instance).

Screenshot from my next talk -

#u3a #u3a.social @U3ACommunities Computing