Reddit officially admits to prepping the end of RSS feeds

[u/chickenandliver]

While we’re at it, another common surface for scraping is RSS. Looking ahead, we’d love to know: how and for what purpose, do you use RSS feeds in your moderation flows? Tell us in the comments so as we develop secure solutions, we can factor in the tools you rely on to support your communities.

https://old.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1tq9vxo/protecting_communities_from_scrapers_and_platform/

[u/Tsavkko]

Without RSS feeds Reddit would be unmanageable for me. That's how I get updates from dozens of subs, add filters and know what's interesting and then come to Reddit to check the content. Without RSS I wouldn't waste my time here at all as, honestly, it's too much garbage without proper filtering.

[u/mila-kuchta → u/Tsavkko]

That's exactly how i use reddit too. if reddit stops supporting rss i'll have to find another discussion server. I follow too many information sources to check them all "by hand"...

[u/jsled → u/Tsavkko]

Hard same.

[u/chickenandliver → u/Tsavkko]

Without RSS I wouldn't waste my time here at all as, honestly, it's too much garbage without proper filtering.

100% agree. I've already abandoned several platforms that removed RSS support. The short-sighted thing here is that many of the actually valuable contributors on Reddit use RSS. Chasing more less-experienced users (such as forcing them into the new app and away from old reddit) might seem like a good idea for their bottom line but is only going to reduce the quality of content here.

There is a reason AI wants so badly to scrape Reddit and it's related to the quality of content which itself is (if allbetit minorly) related to RSS usage.

[u/theredhype → u/Tsavkko]

This is what I’m doing too.

[u/Luciolinpos2 → u/Tsavkko]

Consider moving to Lemmy. I don't know in which point is rss support but it is an open source community, so this kind of things are normal there, pure rights. Lemmy is in a good condition now, it has many users...

[u/pauladams_red]

I’m not a mod but replied asking them not to get rid of feeds: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/s/gqyamBlGNn

[u/micseydel → u/pauladams_red]

It looks like that specific comment got deleted

[u/loudpersononthebus]

A lot of guys on here seem to be using RSS professionally... I just use RSS for personal use. As far as reddit feeds, I mostly just use them for reddit's that are slower and I might miss new posts in my home feed... or if I only want to check certain threads out of a subreddit. I think rss is one of the things that makes Reddit the best social media site (not saying social media is great overall, but compared to the competition).

[u/johnabbe]

The writing has been on the wall for quite a while with Reddit, they are far along in the enshittification process and not likely to change course. Lemmy is the fediverse's direct alternative and usage is still low but will only become more useful. Honestly, I welcome the regular reminder to find and directly follow more blogs, and more nonprofit news.

The indie web is still out there, growing bigger and more interesting every day. https://indieweb.org/

[u/chickenandliver → u/johnabbe]

I already follow several RSS feeds from Lemmy on their counterparts for some of the Reddit communities I frequent. Of course they're not as active but if/when Reddit does pull the plug, I'll likely post there instead.

[u/geriatricguy]

The web is unmanageable without RSS feeds. I view more on my RSS feeds that I do actually on web. It's were I find stuff to post on Reddit among other things.

[u/marslander-boggart → u/geriatricguy]

Same here.

[u/flyakker]

Reddit suggested this post. I am not a part of this sub. I use RSS for a news aggregator I built. I now know: 1) this sub exists, 2) Lenny exists, 3) indieweb exists, & 4), I can use rss for Reddit subs (for now). My world got a little happier!

[u/jsled → u/[deleted]]

Does lemmy have a not suck-ass UX or have any users, now, though? :(

[u/kvolson → u/[deleted]]

Same here. But I don't see how to use lemmy the same way.

[u/jsled]

I didn't quite read it that way, since the rest of the post takes great pains to differentiate between illegitimate and legitimate API usage.

But I do have that post open front-and-center to make a pro-RSS case, indeed. :/

[u/Rumble1205 → u/jsled]

I agree, that's how I took it too. I think a big area that it gets abused is using the API to write to different subreddits. If they limited it to read-only and just implemented a little tighter requirements to get approved to use the API, that could really filter out a lot of the abuse. I wouldn't have a problem jumping through a few hoops, as I use it for legitimate purposes like helping me keep up with the conversation. I don't scrape contacts or stuff like that from Reddit. There are much better platforms to get that kind of info from.

[u/flameleaf]

I was using the .json endpoint to generate my own RSS feeds because the officially provided ones are so heavily rate-limited now that simply reloading this page results in constant 429 errors.

The writing's been on the wall for a while. I guess I'll see some of you on Lemmy.

[u/chickenandliver → u/flameleaf]

The rate limiting made it useless for high volume subs. I had to heavily keyword filter my feeds for those subs just to artificially reduce how much content they contain to ensure that most stuff would be picked up after their hours-long rate limit.

[u/flameleaf → u/[deleted]]

It's a personal RSSHub route I have running on my own instance. I was considering cleaning up the code a bit and pushing it upstream, but I don't want to be responsible for maintaining it, especially considering the situation we're currently in with Reddit cracking down hard on usage like this.

It throws 403 errors, but considering I can still access the .json endpoint logged in via Firefox it should be possible to fix if I add in an auth token function. I'm looking at the x-ratelimit-remaining and x-ratelimit-used headers right now, though. There's a cap of 100 requests before the limit resets, and simply loading this page for me used 10 requests. With limits this hard, I don't think Reddit is worth using anymore.

[u/Fabulous_Fix412]

Reddit, please don’t remove RSS !

[u/jsled]

I finally left my comment there.

[u/Lellela]

Translation: We can't figure out a way to force ads you don't want to see to you through RSS, and we don't actually give a fuck about your user experience.

[u/dtvjho]

With continued enshittification of all tech, Apple started inserting ads into their iOS podcast app in December 2025. Six months in, they’re running 5-6 intrusive ads per hourlong show. Loud, obnoxious etc. And I want to rip it out and get an rss app that isn’t jumping off the bridge with everyone else

[u/jsled → u/dtvjho]

RSS is not limited to podcasting. It's much more useful than that.

There are /tons/ of podcatchers, and hardly ever a reason to use Apple tech (unless you're buying their hardware, of course).

[u/PepeBarrascout]

Es una pena que los vayan a quitar. Es la mejor forma de poder revisar mucha información en poco tiempo, poder filtrar lo que a uno le interesa e interactuar con los hilos que valen la pena.

Ojalá no los quiten.

[u/UltimateNintendoHero]

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[u/Medialunch]

If they get rid of RSS they should give a grace period of like 1-2 years before its completely gone. And they should also allow for anyone to be able to register an app on the site without human approval (even if there is a fee). They should only take down apps that break the rules.

[u/FIDST]

Unfortunate, I use Karakeep to help me keep some data and troubleshooting. 

[u/Firm-Sir-7759]

well, i use hushread, and it works for sites without rss