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RSS is an essential component to modern web publishing and it feels scary to see how one company’s inconsideration might harm its already fragile future. One day cloudflare will get big enough to be subject to antitrust regulation and this instance will be a strong data point working against them.

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It's not one company - it's an individual decision of every blog operator to block their own readers by signing up for cloudflare.

It's not essential, I don't know anyone in real life who uses it.

I run an RSS feed on my blog out of principle and I don't bother reading other feeds I'm subscribed to

When I'm bored I come here, I go on Mastodon, and gods save me, I go on Reddit

Podcasts are based on RSS and a lot of people listen to podcasts.

Outside of Spotify and YouTube?

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