Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?

rss is dead. and aggregating won't be your main issue anyway.

RSS is alive and well. I use it daily with dozens of sites and authors. It's incredibly useful, widely used, and well supported.

Finding content is the issue. Unless I go directly to each site every day and scan for new articles I'm likely to miss them. If not for aggregators and RSS how else would this be accomplished?

If you don’t use rss, just say you don’t use rss. I assure you that many of us do. It continues to deliver me hundreds of articles from dozens of sources day after day, decade after decade. my services that check rss, continue to run their automated tasks. It’s an amazing protocol and even when big corpos try and take it away, hacks come up to restore access.

Most news sites have RSS feeds. Wordpress ships with an RSS feed.

And for sites that don't you can make your own feeds by selecting links on pages (such as how AP News doesn't have an RSS feed).

> RSS is alive and well

That's a stretch.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-rise-and-demise-of-rss/

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r...

The Conversation feeds say otherwise.

RSS is the technological backbone that enables the distribution and subscription of podcasts...which by the way is massive at the moment.

As others have stated, plenty of websites have RSS feeds.

> As others have stated, plenty of websites have RSS feeds.

It’s a bit of a mixed bag though - whilst some big websites still have an RSS feed, you can’t get the full article text, smaller blogs etc seem to be better in that regard.

> [RSS] is a standard that websites and podcasts can use to offer a feed of content to their users, one easily understood by lots of different computer programs. Today, though RSS continues to power many applications on the web, it has become, for most people, an obscure technology.

arguing that RSS is dead because the average person doesn't understand it is like saying HTTP's dead for the same reason. neither are dead: we've just abstracted them to the point that they're no longer the front-facing part of any interaction.

There are RSS readers which can automatically download the full article text. I use Handy Reading on Android which can also do so on-demand.

That used to be the case few years ago. Now it seems that all popular podcasts are hidden inside commercial services such as Spotify.

Hmm ironically it's how I'm reading this rn

Nope

Still get all of my podcasts via RSS. Several dozen.

Podcasts tend to be available from different sources to extend their reach YouTube and Spotify don't offer RSS feeds, however other services like redcirle.com, megaphone.fm, anchor.fm, and audioboom.com all offer RSS feeds. Even Apple should as it has a set of iTunes extensions for RSS to annotate things like the episode number.

I've been able to find RSS feeds for all the podcasts I listen to.

RSS isn't dead. I use it daily. Most podcasts — all if you subscribe to the philosophy that mp3s without rss aren't podcasts — are built on it. Most websites still provide a feed, even if the owner isn't aware of it.

YouTube, very surprisingly, does offer RSS feeds (for now).

Youtube offers rss feeds, for example: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCXuqSBl...

It's just a bit clunky to find. You need the channel id which you can find in the page source somewhere.

Note that this is a regular rss, not podcast rss.

RSS is alive and well.

Is that really a problem though? I usually want to read something on the original website anyway as RSS is a lot more limited (or at least inconsistent) in what kind of styling and media is supported. What I care about is getting notified of updates to sites/people I follow without having to rely on a centralized gatekepper and RSS does that really well.