I see a lot of people complaining about how "RSS readers went away." It's a bit baffling, because they didn't. You just stopped using them 
@nyquildotorg my problem was that most, if not most, rss feeds were discontinued after Google killed off Google Reader.
@borup maybe this is true with the feeds you subscribed to, but I took my Google Reader OPML export and loaded it into inoreader and still have basically the same experience. I'm sure some of them have gone away, but it's still way more than I could ever keep up with.
@nyquildotorg there are lots of rss feeds for sure. The ones I miss are the mayor news outlets in Denmark.
You could try this, I have used it and got good result but YMMV.
@borup @nyquildotorg Are they gone, or have they just been hidden?
@skipfordj @nyquildotorg they were mostly made inaccessible when the media houses stopped having public facing drupal sites.
@borup @nyquildotorg Right, but my question is are they still accessible, just hidden?
@skipfordj @nyquildotorg to my knowledge they are gone.
@borup @nyquildotorg Very few sites I follow don't support RSS. It's a built-in feature of most CMS systems, so it's generally there without anyone trying. I've only found a few narrow categories where it isn't supported, I suspect cryptocurrency sites intentionally disable it, for instance.
@borup @nyquildotorg As a die-hard RSS user, I agree that sites these days aren't as good about supporting RSS as they should be.
I've been using RSS-Bridge for a bit now, and it's good. https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge
@borup @nyquildotorg Yeah, the destruction of Google Reader was a huge turning point for RSS feeds and their use. :( It makes me so sad because it's so obvious that when people log into social media, what they're really after is an RSS feed. Some of them even think that's what they're getting and don't know that it's a highly manipulative algorithm.
My mum is continually trying to show me stuff she's just seen on Facebook and then as she's turning her tablet to show me it all reloads and the post has disappeared for ever.
@borup @nyquildotorg this isnt true
@borup @nyquildotorg I've found that most sites still have rss feeds, they just don't advertise them. Visiting site/rss.xml or feed.xml tends to generally work.
@vv
..and that's the problem. If only the people who consciously look for it can even find feeds, then more and more website operators are even aware of RSS' existence.
Case in point: I'm finding increasing amounts of things which call themselves podcasts but are actually just audio widgets on some website, sometimes with a download button.
Another point: I'm also finding RSS feeds that exist because the website template had them but were never configured to work well.
@borup @nyquildotorg
@vv
also: I never used Google Reader because to me that nullified 90% of the benefit of RSS: it meant thaz Google knew exactly who's reading what, when RSS was designed to follow websites without registering.
Have always been using local readers built into e-mail clients etc.
More recently, #fraidycat has been one of my favourites -- including for some websites that don't provide RSS or Atom feeds.
@borup @nyquildotorg
@nyquildotorg Browsers used to indicate if a site offered an RSS feed. that went away. and with it public access.
@nyquildotorg I still use them, but I miss Firefox having the live bookmarks which were my preferred way. Many readers require logins to track you.
And these days many feeds are just short links that won't display properly in a reader, or some sites don't have them (you have to jump through many hoops to get it crawled and follow), and many big sites do have feeds but do their best to not advertise the feature, which contributes to fewer and fewer people using (or even knowing) about RSS.
@nyquildotorg Same as xmpp "went away". Bigtech stopped supporting the open standards which could not easily be monopolized or which didn't enable targeted advertising.
@nyquildotorg @kensanata I’m more saddened that Twitter, Facebook and more and more sites don’t offer feeds
@nyquildotorg I take it usually to mean "RSS died as a quasi-community", not that the technology itself somehow went away.
RSS only exists now for people who actively seek it out and might as well be completely gone for the rest; hence the userbase and support will only ever be shrinking as time goes on
@nyquildotorg It's similar with Gemini, the *protocol* itself will never "go away" in the literal sense, but its popularity might eventually fade (or not!) and with it the number of Gemini sites
It's "Technology as binaries you can run" vs "Technology as the entire ecosystem of things it allows people to do"
:dontpanic_nobg: they want an AIRSS reader (this whole post exists because AIRSS sounds a little like "arse")
@nyquildotorg Still annoyed at Mozilla for watching google try to kill RSS and just kinda shrugging and going right along with it
@ifixcoinops @nyquildotorg Well, they do get paid half a billion dollars by them every year, so… 
@nyquildotorg same with irc and all noncorporate internet. y'all just on your phones on insta and tiktok, we're all still here
@nyquildotorg Finding the RSS feed is a lot harder now, I find. TheGuardian.com still has them, for example, but you'd not know unless you knew.
And IME lots of places no longer support RSS now
@nyquildotorg too few people know about torrent tracker with RSS feed that auto download specified searches with regex to exclude some results
Best thing since sliced bread.
Stellar 
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era) @nyquildotorg@mastodon.social my youtube subscribe list is a bunch of rss feeds and i didn't even knew
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@nyquildotorg Well, I did not my good sir 
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The door charge used to be free, though. Nowadays, users need to be familiar with tools such as rss-bridge to get the same value.