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Is it possible that Podcasts are the last remaining widespread/mainstream use case of RSS?

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For me at least, it's quite on the contrary, there are few viable cases for content I wish not to consume via RSS.

Some of my reasons are:

1. Having a central place where I can keep track of my my reading lists.

2. Offline first (download for later use is the default behavior)

3. Deduplication - for advanced use cases such as messy web feeds, where ordering is far from guaranteed, a well defined key can reduce the clutter significantly.

4. Advanced filtering (Newsboat is great at that)

Not at all. Most sites support RSS. There are still people (myself included) that consume most of their web content via RSS.

Is that really "widespread/mainstream" though? Podcasts listening is pretty huge; in the US "38% of those age 12+ in the U.S. are monthly podcast listeners" (ref: https://www.edisonresearch.com/the-infinite-dial-2022/)

You can still use RSS for most news sites and some feed type sites

youtube,news(papers) and so on have support for RSS or are supported using 3rd party providers

No. A lot of things are crawled with RSS. With pubmed for example you can set up search terms as rss feeds.

RSS is also used a lot as a trigger on no code automation platforms like Zapier

And there's an article on the front page of HN just about that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32139612

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