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by jperry 1868 days ago
RSS is essentially dead, sadly. Can't push ads or gather analytics through it so it's been "optimised out" of the web.

Even those rare sites that DO support RSS quite often only show the first paragraph or even just the title of the page, which I suppose is an acceptable compromise.

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I use rssbridge for sites without a feed, and the feediron plugin for ttrss for sites whose feed is incomplete.

https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge https://github.com/feediron/ttrss_plugin-feediron https://git.tt-rss.org/fox/tt-rss

For folks on iOS the app Unread does an instapaper-like reader view of the feed text if it detects (or if you set manually) an excerpt feed
As a protocol it hasnt been replaced by something better. So it isn't dead, just pushed out of the market by grabby walled gardens
They can for example:

* only provide lead text

* use html with image ads

* use html with an ads-js