Although RSS feeds are alive and still heavily used today, their level of adoption has suffered because of how difficult a handful of popular technology companies have made it to use them. Google, especially, has relied on the open web RSS protocol to gain so much market share and influence, but continues to engage in behavior that exploits the open web at the expense of its users. As a result, Google has single-handedly contributed to the reason many users who once relied on RSS feeds have stopped using them.
This makes me want to investigate / get involved in using more RSS feeds. Never used them before… Idk why
RSS feeds are incredible and I absolutely hate how many websites stopped using them or providing them. I’ve built so many web scrapers that probably uses more of their server resources because a site refuses to provide a way for me to know when they have new content.
You can get an RSS feed of any Lemmy community to be notified evey time there’s a post there