> Most podcast listeners don't have a proper RSS reader apart from their podcast app. Sure, but I would assume that "RSS is dead" isn't so much about consumer

> Most podcast listeners don't have a proper RSS reader apart from their podcast app. Sure, but I would assume that "RSS is dead" isn't so much about consumer awareness of RSS, but rather about the technology being invisibly supported and used in the infrastructure they make use of (through podcast clients et al) such that content producers still care about publishing through RSS. Like, if I said "TLS1.0 is dead", I wouldn't be referring to greenfield projects not using it any more; but rather to the fact that the browsers and libraries that invisibly use it (and nothing newer) are themselves not being used by anyone any more — so nobody on the content-delivery end has to think about supporting TLS1.0 clients any more, and can drop any code that was supporting that. But that's definitely not the case with RSS. There are still many important systems that depend on consuming RSS feeds. So there are people who still need to support RSS. So it's alive.