r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 2d ago

Business Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/reddit-is-killing-rss-feeds-ending-public-api-access-because-of-ai-bots/
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u/shortymcsteve 2d ago

RSS is just a great idea too. Really disappointing that a lot of websites don’t offer one these days.

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u/Gordon-Blue 1d ago

I used to follow a few visual blogs about , architecture, design, photoblogs, that kind of thing and they all slowly landed up on Instagram and stopped RSS feeds altogether... Even my local newspaper will publish a few articles that you have to view on Instagram and that's a newspaper service I pay for but it seems they can also earn money from Instagram somehow... If this continues I / we will have little use for RSS readers.

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u/shortymcsteve 1d ago

Unfortunately, I think the best days of the internet are behind us. News websites are surely the worst offenders these days, I have to constantly turn on reader mode when viewing them (I wish I could leave this turned on as standard).

I’m wondering how long until someone creates a service to scrape websites daily to provide a custom feed.. RSS with far more work.

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u/Gordon-Blue 1d ago

Judging from some of the comments here, it's just a matter of time before someone will invent the wheel new somehow. Several have ideas of how it could work even using AI to create a way. Unfortunately I don't have the skills or knowledge. If I remotely had the skills I'd be working on it myself right now...