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Do you think I'll just check manually every day to see if you wrote a new post? That for each and every blog I follow?

That's like comparing old school Windows software updating where you "just have to go on the website and read the news" vs `apt update && apt upgrade`.

My assumption was that nobody checks rss feeds since the iPhone came out anymore, but apparently I’m wrong

Why since the iPhone? RSS feeds on my phone were my preferred way of reading blogs before responsive web design was a thing.

Chrome mobile used to have a native RSS Following feature since 2021.

https://blog.chromium.org/2021/05/an-experiment-in-helping-u...

It seems they killed it in 2025, maybe to make space for the AI button.

Is there some giant rss feed following community I’m missing?

Yes

You don't have to maintain it, you make it once then it just works. As long as your website can print post titles and urls to a document the rss feed should work.

Currently, the RSS feed is what's driving the most traffic to my blog.