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Comment by mrgoldenbrown | Hacker News Reader

>Pretty much every website out there still has feeds.

Where is the RSS button on Facebook, Instagram, tiktok, twitter, or YouTube? Most websites might have feeds, but not the most used web sites.

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The feeds are there. There are apps that use them, even on TVs.

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCtI0Hod...

I don’t use those other sites, but YouTube, here ya go.

https://chuck.is/yt-rss/

Worst case, pretty much every modern client has features that let you subscribe to things that aren’t RSS friendly. For example Feedly (which I don’t use) has the ability to subscribe to Twitter, Reddit, Mastodon, Facebook, Telegram, Google News search queries, etc.

Looks like Feedly relies on third party websites to create the RSS, like FetchRss, which has limitations. I guess the existence of all these intermediate tools means some people do still care about RSS, even if the big companies are trying to keep us through walled garden.

https://docs.feedly.com/article/660-can-i-follow-facebook-fe...

Twitter used to have that, haven't kept up with if they still do. Youtube can do it also I think in a limited way.

Twitter does not, they dropped their RSS feeds a long time ago. They still had a free API for a while so you could use a twitter-to-RSS tool but early in the Musk era the free API went away.

Yes, YouTube has RSS feeds for channels (technically I think the feed is per playlist but channels have a default playlist).

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