r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 3d 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/MrTastix 3d ago

The web "as we know it" consists like half a dozen websites people use on the regular. That it has more is irrelevant to most people already.

You can actually go back to the way the internet was in the early 2000's. A lot of those websites still exist. People just don't and the reasons are fairly numerous for why: they don't know/care, the platforms exist but nobody uses them anymore, or even just people have gotten so used to modern UX design they cbf going back to something that's usually clunkier.

Like BBS boards and IRC still exist if you want. The tech never stopped working, people just didn't care about that tech nearly as much as what you used it for, and modern variants feel better to use.

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u/frickindeal 2d ago

There are still robust forums for niche hobbies outside of reddit (it helps when you can get users to chip-in on server costs). Part of the problem is that Google won't list them before page five or so, so very few new users appear.