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Will Reddit Kill RSS Feeds (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by curt@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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I just set up all the subreddits I still want to following in Reeder, an RSS app. I'm able scroll through the posts ad free. It the occurred to me that this is a loss of revenue to Reddit. Could RSS be the new target for onerous fees?

It could be the case that RSS usage is small compared to 3rd party apps like Apollo so not of much concern. It also may be the case that it isn't possible for Reddit to charge for the usage. If they can't charge, they may just disable RSS altogether. I'm only guessing. I'll take off my tinfoil hat now.

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[–] LynneOfFlowers@midwest.social 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shhh no one tell spez there's still RSS feeds

[–] NicoCharrua@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Reddit tried to remove https://i.reddit.com, but they forgot that you could also access it by going to https://reddit.com/.i

Wouldn't be surprised if they would remove RSS feeds but forgot they exist

[–] bhaak@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

WTF? I never knew this existed.

How can this still be there? They didn't rip out the code that generated this pages but only the redirects? I'm always surprised how shitty Reddit's development is.

Either that or somebody was deliberately specificly resolving the issue "remove the .compact and i.reddit.com view". :)

[–] Shinhoshi@infosec.pub 12 points 1 year ago

Yeah, probably malicious compliance :)

[–] tappyturtle@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

Thank you!!!!! Now I can browse Reddit on my 3DS again

(that is, if I still actively used Reddit)

[–] locness3@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

Ohh didn't know about the .i, tysm! I knew of i.reddit.com and reddit.com/.compact and both have been killed.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never saw i.reddit.com, i thought they used that for image hosting. It needs a little touch-up but besides that it's very usable. Crazy.

[–] NicoCharrua@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Image hosting is i.redd.it