Reddit is killing ~~RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots~~ itself.
this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2026
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This will really suck for the niche communities I follow. RSS is what enabled me to follow a handful of communities that don't exist elsewhere.
Will someone explain to him that RSS was designed for scraping?
reddit dies more every day than the day before and it’s already long dead
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