[prepend]

RSS is still here, but the major platforms don’t publish RSS feeds and make it hard to scrape into feeds. Facebook and Twitter don’t allow it. Google usually doesn’t.

I use RSS extensively to follow blogs and news sources. There are even many that put ads into my feed, which is cool by me.

[drdrey]

RSS is technically still here, but it seems to me you're the exception here, not the norm. RSS is not quite as mainstream as it used to be