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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! 
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@rysiek at the same its kinda technical feature + you cant put ads in there
@tragivictoria of course you can put ads in there.
@rysiek I subscribe to a lot of RSS feeds via @NetNewsWire and News Blur.
None of the RSS feeds show any adverts from the newspapers or other publications I follow. Maybe this is why some don't market their feeds.
@rysiek @pluralistic Browsers used to auto-find and put an RSS button in the URL bar.
Used to.
I kinda understand why they stopped, but I wish it was a user-selectable option so power users could easily find those feeds. Also, it would allow for the creation of a viral TikTok video about a “secret option” to break free of algorithms which would do more for teaching non-technical users about RSS than anything else ever written.
@spaceinvader I did say "don't get me started" on that 
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@rysiek whoops, didn’t see that other post.
But yes. Very yes. Don’t get me started on the infuriating UI decisions which seem to be the ongoing theme lately. 🙂
@harinezumi neither does a facebook post
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Mobile first... 
(I'm not aware of any reputable RSS readers for mobile, as I suspect most people aren't, and I'd be quite interested in recommendations tbh... 
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@rysiek ah we are on the same page then XD.
@rysiek @elmine um, I actually blame the non-considered inclusion of RSS feeds in newspaper website systems in the 90s for the fact people expect their news for free. Newspapers don’t want to reach an audience; journalists do. Newspapers want to keep paying journalists and thus have copyright/control/make money. And they don’t make any off you not going to their website.
(As an idealist I feel similar to you but I also know journalism takes a lot of time and can’t be done as a hobby)
@Anneke @elmine sure, I get that – I had worked at a media org.
But here's the thing, the media orgs keep complaining that social media is so bad for them, eating their cake, not sending people back to their sites, limiting reach, and all that, and yet they keep encouraging people to use that.
RSS/Atom has fewer of these downsides.
@rysiek It is crazy. But it's because they all have this belief that they're special and everyone will track down and read all their articles to the last Oxford comma.
@rysiek So true.
Mind you, many websites do have an RSS feed but don't publicise it (mostly, I suspect, due to ignorance).
I use addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firef… to find "hidden" RSS feeds to follow (on my frendica instance).
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> Mind you, many websites do have an RSS feed but don't publicise it (mostly, I suspect, due to ignorance).
This is kind of my point. Most of these sites *do* have RSS/Atom feeds available. They just decide to hide them.
@rysiek Agreed. RSS rocks
@rysiek Hey, they simply don't need it! They just molest users with a "subscribe to our wonderful newsletter" message which pops up the instant you access the site. Or some seconds later once you started reading.
@rysiek Very true - there is a bunch of media whose sites I've stopped following (including many ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corp,that just randomly drop off the map, thinking that being on podcasts is the same thing.)
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