<![CDATA[I find it such a weird meme that RSS/Atom is dead.]]>I find it such a weird meme that RSS/Atom is dead. Literally every blogging platform has RSS/Atom support. Not just the "indie" ones, even the big corporate ones, like Substack and Medium. Every mastodon account has a built-in RSS feed. Every Bluesky account has a built-in RSS feed. Almost every major news site has an RSS or Atom feed. WordPress automatically produces RSS feeds (and WordPress powers almost half the Web).

RSS and Atom are almost certainly even more ubiquitous than they were in the 2000s, if only because the web has gotten so much bigger than it was back then.

There are more podcasts now than there ever have been, and each of these has an RSS feed.

Every fucking YouTube channel has an RSS feed. In 2005 there were probably fewer than 20 million blogs. Right now there are more than a hundred million YouTube channels.

RSS/Atom is bigger than ever.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/2a733d70-547d-497b-94ce-af34429b8842/i-find-it-such-a-weird-meme-that-rss-atom-is-dead.RSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 07:46:09 GMTMon, 04 May 2026 18:22:04 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to I find it such a weird meme that RSS/Atom is dead. on Wed, 06 May 2026 09:13:33 GMT]]>@jonmsterling when they say it’s dead, what they mean is there’s no way to insert a paywall or otherwise get between the rss provider and users and clip the ticket.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/imclaren/statuses/116526862417393427https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/imclaren/statuses/116526862417393427Wed, 06 May 2026 09:13:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I find it such a weird meme that RSS/Atom is dead. on Wed, 06 May 2026 04:38:09 GMT]]>@jonmsterling I did find that it was kind of hard as someone not very tech-savy to figure out what to actually, like, use RSS for because there isn't really a go-to reader anymore.

But now I use the livemark firefox extention to get updating bookmarks of the blogs and webcomics I follow. And I could definitely use something else if I wanted a different experience, it's wonderfully flexible that way.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://meow.social/users/Owlor/statuses/116525779496701767https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://meow.social/users/Owlor/statuses/116525779496701767Wed, 06 May 2026 04:38:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I find it such a weird meme that RSS/Atom is dead. on Wed, 06 May 2026 03:41:55 GMT]]>@jonmsterling I still manually write an RSS feed for my project, which gets committed in and versioned. Everything just works with it.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chitter.xyz/users/XerShadowTail/statuses/116525558380726110https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chitter.xyz/users/XerShadowTail/statuses/116525558380726110Wed, 06 May 2026 03:41:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I find it such a weird meme that RSS/Atom is dead. on Tue, 05 May 2026 20:39:37 GMT]]>@KitsuWhooa I feel like two of those complaints are already handled in Akgregator

@jonmsterling

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.tulsa.ok.us/users/BalooUriza/statuses/116523897807372657https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.tulsa.ok.us/users/BalooUriza/statuses/116523897807372657Tue, 05 May 2026 20:39:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I find it such a weird meme that RSS/Atom is dead. on Tue, 05 May 2026 18:37:51 GMT]]>@jonmsterling@mathstodon.xyz This memesque-idea probably come from user frustrated that mainstream social media (facebook…) didn't want to provide RSS feeds and those platforms became the only way to get news from mainstream celebrities and even some events/movies/restaurants.
Those platforms created those walled-garden far from our rss readers.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://pleroma.lord.re/objects/13b093b9-d628-414b-8c08-6141bab63102https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://pleroma.lord.re/objects/13b093b9-d628-414b-8c08-6141bab63102Tue, 05 May 2026 18:37:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I find it such a weird meme that RSS/Atom is dead. on Tue, 05 May 2026 18:27:43 GMT]]>@jonmsterling fwiw, I have been meaning to write a new RSS program for funsies.

However, I think the lack of organisation has been issue with my previous attempts and with other things just locking up/making it more difficult to access I would probably want to make it an RSS app that has some bookmarking utils and configuration for launching apps for music/videos.

Idk, things to ponder and design before I put it on the backburner.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tiggi.es/users/ahto/statuses/116523379145562651https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tiggi.es/users/ahto/statuses/116523379145562651Tue, 05 May 2026 18:27:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I find it such a weird meme that RSS/Atom is dead. on Tue, 05 May 2026 18:24:22 GMT]]>@jonmsterling I absolutely love feeds—they are how I consume news. JSON Feeds is now also widely supported and even easier to implement than RSS or Atom.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/rauschma/statuses/116523366014281759https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/rauschma/statuses/116523366014281759Tue, 05 May 2026 18:24:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I find it such a weird meme that RSS/Atom is dead. on Tue, 05 May 2026 17:45:21 GMT]]>@jonmsterling I find it particularly weird when it’s claimed that killing Google Reader killed RSS

really? because, well, as you say, RSS is still fine, but anyway, was google reader ever so significant that it could have had such a disproportionate impact? (My guess: people who didn’t really use RSS only really know about Google Reader, and maybe conversely, people who used Google Reader weren’t very committed to RSS and so just gave up on RSS as a whole when GR went away.)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/benjamineskola/statuses/116523212581043661https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/benjamineskola/statuses/116523212581043661Tue, 05 May 2026 17:45:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I find it such a weird meme that RSS/Atom is dead. on Tue, 05 May 2026 16:44:41 GMT]]>@mattmaison Well, it looks like Feedly enables you to subscribe to other sites that don't provide XML feeds. But yeah, YouTube does have them linked on channel's pages. They're available at https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=…
I think it was YouTube searches I had in my feed reader back then. Or comments. But not channels.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://queerchen.de/users/steeph/statuses/116522974049081204https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://queerchen.de/users/steeph/statuses/116522974049081204Tue, 05 May 2026 16:44:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I find it such a weird meme that RSS/Atom is dead. on Tue, 05 May 2026 16:18:55 GMT]]>I've seen more sites get RSS in the last few years, not fewer.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://indieweb.social/users/CassandraVert/statuses/116522872712195629https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://indieweb.social/users/CassandraVert/statuses/116522872712195629Tue, 05 May 2026 16:18:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I find it such a weird meme that RSS/Atom is dead. on Tue, 05 May 2026 15:36:33 GMT]]>@dlzv that's possible too off course

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nl/users/alloalli/statuses/116522706123599153https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nl/users/alloalli/statuses/116522706123599153Tue, 05 May 2026 15:36:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I find it such a weird meme that RSS/Atom is dead. on Tue, 05 May 2026 14:58:03 GMT]]>@jonmsterling Hm, maybe I could make a custom NetNewsWire theme that puts a youtube embed in the page for YT video feeds. Then I could bypass YT's algorithmic video selection entirely.. hmm

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://types.pl/users/liamoc/statuses/116522554723151590https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://types.pl/users/liamoc/statuses/116522554723151590Tue, 05 May 2026 14:58:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I find it such a weird meme that RSS/Atom is dead. on Tue, 05 May 2026 14:56:02 GMT]]>@jonmsterling One thing I notice about RSS feeds is that for most of them, they don't include all the content in the feed itself, and just include a link to the content there. It's a bit annoying. This is what all YT feeds do, and substack only has the free preview rather than the full paid articles.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://types.pl/users/liamoc/statuses/116522546786366628https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://types.pl/users/liamoc/statuses/116522546786366628Tue, 05 May 2026 14:56:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I find it such a weird meme that RSS/Atom is dead. on Tue, 05 May 2026 14:47:40 GMT]]>@giantpinkrobots That's not true either... There's more blogs than ever now.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/jonmsterling/statuses/116522513903255433https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/jonmsterling/statuses/116522513903255433Tue, 05 May 2026 14:47:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I find it such a weird meme that RSS/Atom is dead. on Tue, 05 May 2026 14:47:28 GMT]]>@liamoc I mostly use NetNewsWire.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/jonmsterling/statuses/116522513099702042https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/jonmsterling/statuses/116522513099702042Tue, 05 May 2026 14:47:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I find it such a weird meme that RSS/Atom is dead. on Tue, 05 May 2026 14:28:12 GMT]]>@jonmsterling I make an Atom feed for my weeknotes but I don't really consume RSS feeds myself - at least not yet. Do you have any recommended apps or workflows that work for you?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://types.pl/users/liamoc/statuses/116522437318255036https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://types.pl/users/liamoc/statuses/116522437318255036Tue, 05 May 2026 14:28:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I find it such a weird meme that RSS/Atom is dead. on Tue, 05 May 2026 12:37:12 GMT]]>@jonmsterling It's less about RSS itself being dead, but blogs, which are mostly dead.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/giantpinkrobots/statuses/116522000852451169https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/giantpinkrobots/statuses/116522000852451169Tue, 05 May 2026 12:37:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I find it such a weird meme that RSS/Atom is dead. on Tue, 05 May 2026 12:29:11 GMT]]>@alloalli I'm more likely to want the opposite: using Mastodon's built-in RSS feeds to read Mastodon from the comfort of my RSS reader 🙂

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/dlzv/statuses/116521969357060107https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/dlzv/statuses/116521969357060107Tue, 05 May 2026 12:29:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I find it such a weird meme that RSS/Atom is dead. on Tue, 05 May 2026 12:05:14 GMT]]>@jonmsterling Hmm, youtube channnels have rss feeds too? I thought that it doesn't work anymore, I need to investigate this again.]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fedi.ml/objects/421c36a5-1269-f9dc-fa40-1e6313819460https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fedi.ml/objects/421c36a5-1269-f9dc-fa40-1e6313819460Tue, 05 May 2026 12:05:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I find it such a weird meme that RSS/Atom is dead. on Tue, 05 May 2026 12:01:54 GMT]]>@dlzv @jonmsterling
you can use @birb to use mastodon as a rss reader

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nl/users/alloalli/statuses/116521862092283899https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nl/users/alloalli/statuses/116521862092283899Tue, 05 May 2026 12:01:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I find it such a weird meme that RSS/Atom is dead. on Tue, 05 May 2026 12:00:55 GMT]]>@jonmsterling Sounds useful. Perhaps browsers should consider integrating RSS functionality

😐

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://oldbytes.space/users/Kroc/statuses/116521858196869109https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://oldbytes.space/users/Kroc/statuses/116521858196869109Tue, 05 May 2026 12:00:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I find it such a weird meme that RSS/Atom is dead. on Tue, 05 May 2026 10:24:25 GMT]]>@jonmsterling Ask yourself, "Whose interests are served by that narrative? Who is pushing that story?"

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://indieweb.social/users/mikro2nd/statuses/116521478724104355https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://indieweb.social/users/mikro2nd/statuses/116521478724104355Tue, 05 May 2026 10:24:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I find it such a weird meme that RSS/Atom is dead. on Tue, 05 May 2026 09:02:02 GMT]]>@jonmsterling Feel like I've seen "the idea that RSS/Atom is dead is stupid" more than "RSS/Atom is dead".

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://oldbytes.space/users/nini/statuses/116521154804188675https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://oldbytes.space/users/nini/statuses/116521154804188675Tue, 05 May 2026 09:02:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to I find it such a weird meme that RSS/Atom is dead. on Tue, 05 May 2026 08:50:43 GMT]]>@jonmsterling Every GitHub repo as commit and release atom feeds...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://someplace.social/users/jonathan859/statuses/116521110333261501https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://someplace.social/users/jonathan859/statuses/116521110333261501Tue, 05 May 2026 08:50:43 GMT