[zerop]

Want to start a subthread here on what makes it great and despite many attempts to kill it, it still rocks! My take

1. Widely adopted protocol, clients in all programming languages.

2. Publicly readable without password

3. Get notification for new items in many tools like Slack

4. Easy to produce and consume

5. Many nice Web UI Reader available

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[ascagnel_]

Not necessary, but nice: can be monetized in a healthy way via things like API tokens. I have a few podcasts whose RSS feed endpoints accept a unique, revocable token and check that server-side -- but the client needs only the ability to pass query params in the URL (which it should have anyways). It's a great way for creators to get paid without imposing on their users.