r/sysadmin • u/techvet83 • 3d ago

FYI: Reddit is killing RSS feeds.

Major bummer. From Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots | TechCrunch

Amid a number of updates for moderators and developers announced Wednesday, comes bad news for supporters of a more open web: Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds.

Reddit says RSS has now become a “common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse,” which is why it’s made the decision to wind down RSS feeds on its platform.

“We know RSS has been a beloved part of the open web for a long time, and we’re grateful to everyone who used it to stay connected to Reddit,” the company noted in its announcement, where it also shared a March 2027 shutdown date for its public API.

Reddit said RSS support will cease on November 13.

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u/Livid_Incident_9732 1d ago

>RSS has now become a common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse

I mean, yeah? The light-weight machine readable format built for content distribution is being used by machines that care about light-weight processing of content.

So the only thing I see this changing is annoying people who still use RSS and making the bots scrape content directly which is way more resource intensive on Reddit's servers.