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It is absolutely *wild* to me that media organizations still do not put RSS/Atom 
feed info front-and-center on their websites.
One needs to dive into HTML code or use external tools to discover their feeds.
It is wild because this is one of the easiest, least-effort ways to reach their audience. Encouraging RSS/Atom use is a phenomenal way of becoming less reliant on gatekeepers like huge social media platforms.
Come on! 
@ripienaar @ace they keep encouraging people to share stuff on social media, where they also (in most places) don't have a way of monetizing – in fact, often they have to *pay* for the reach!
Can you track engagement?
Can you tailor advertising?
I don't know, but I'm guessing they do. 😒
I dive into news websites or blog source code to find an RSS link whenever I find an interesting site that isn't on #Mastodon.
Through #RSS and RSS Parrot I can pull them into the #Fediverse and subscribe to their feed right here.
More at: https://rss-parrot.net
@rysiek in a previous employment, a university news site used RSS extensively, we setup the news site with tags for departments, programs, etc and the corresponding sites or microsites consumed the news which kept them looking very fresh!
I agree not enough organizations do this
@rysiek @Em0nM4stodon media companies want to be the gatekeepers tho
@rysiek mfer they are taking down their RSS feeds... precisely because it's lo-fi and no ads. I have a canary account on IG and the number of RSS feeds crippled is 65% of my original set. CNN is showing a feed from 2023.
@rysiek very few businesses owners have even a decent idea of what their business is
@benjistokman having worked at a media NGO, I cannot even express how true this is.
@rysiek And in terms of the funnel? You are literally catering to people already interested in your shit!
@rysiek #notallmediaorganizations
https://podnews.net - it's literally in the nav bar.
@james fantastic, good to know!
I'll spare you the innumerable counter-examples. 
@rysiek for a while it was more commonplace; then they all caught the advertising bug and started purposefully removing RSS/Atom feeds or making it difficult to use because it generally means less revenue from advertising.
@rysiek unsure if it'd been linked at all (post replies haven't back filled yet) but I use an addon to get some of the auto-detection back. Not ideal having to do so but eases it a bit!
@rysiek Look if we can't engorge 430 cross domain bloaters and data grifters making a page render hundreds of MBs so I can read a paragraph of text, the what is the web even for...
@rysiek I assume it's because they'd rather serve us adverts when we visit the websites.
@mkb @rysiek i like the way the https://selfh.st/ newsletter does it, they has a paid RSS feed without ads, and a free RSS feed that only shows the article title and a link to the website
@mkb honestly, in most cases I am pretty sure it's a complete lack of understanding.
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@rysiek I think a big reason is advertising and tracking.
RSS feeds bypass most trackers, analytics, and user profiling, so readers become largely "invisible" from a monetization point of view.
RSS gives control back to readers instead of platforms — and that’s precisely why it’s not encouraged.
On my site, there is RSS 😉