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Is it possible that Podcasts are the last remaining widespread/mainstream use case of RSS?
by scep12 4y ago
Is it possible that Podcasts are the last remaining widespread/mainstream use case of RSS?
- iamryo 4y agoNo
- cactusmatt 4y agoNot at all. Most sites support RSS. There are still people (myself included) that consume most of their web content via RSS.
- scep12 4y agoIs that really "widespread/mainstream" though? Podcasts listening is pretty huge; in the US "38% of those age 12+ in the U.S. are monthly podcast listeners" (ref: https://www.edisonresearch.com/the-infinite-dial-2022/ https://www.edisonresearch.com/the-infinite-dial-2022/)
- almog 4y agoFor me at least, it's quite on the contrary, there are few viable cases for content I wish not to consume via RSS. Some of my reasons are: 1. Having a central place where I can keep track of my my reading lists. 2. Offline first (download for later use is the default behavior) 3. Deduplication - for advanced use cases such as messy web feeds, where ordering is far from guaranteed, a well defined key can reduce the clutter significantly. 4. Advanced filtering (Newsboat is great at that)
- asdff 4y agoNo. A lot of things are crawled with RSS. With pubmed for example you can set up search terms as rss feeds.
- Thristle 4y agoYou can still use RSS for most news sites and some feed type sites youtube,news(papers) and so on have support for RSS or are supported using 3rd party providers
- remorses 4y agoRSS is also used a lot as a trigger on no code automation platforms like Zapier
- xcambar 4y agoAnd there's an article on the front page of HN just about that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32139612 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32139612