Reddit is shutting down RSS and public API access. Blame AI.
mashable.com
RSS has become a "common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse," according to Reddit.

I use RSS to follow comic artists who haven’t made the jump to the fediverse (or don’t otherwise have an RSS feed).
Invite your favorite creators to the fediverse! Mastodon, Lemmy, Piefed all have RSS
Tumblr and Webtoon do too!

  • AreaKode@riskeratspizza.com
    40·
    4 hours ago

    It’s been useless as a platform for a while. Now they’re making it more and more useless as a data repository. I use Reddit now like I use Stack Overflow. Only when it pops up as a search result.

    • bugbear@lemmy.sdf.org
      20·
      4 hours ago

      So much knowledge is going to be lost, honestly. And before people point out lemmy/kbin (and other Reddit-like fedi software), it’s still not comparable.

      • DaGeek247@fedia.io
        11·
        3 hours ago

        Or searchable. I’ve tried several times to find things I’d seen previously on the fediverse and a solid two thirds I just couldn’t find them again.

        Reddit results on the other hand are basically a perfect match anytime I want to find something.

        • bugbear@lemmy.sdf.org
          6·
          2 hours ago

          Yes, searchability is an issue. It’s partly how the big web search engines work, but I think it’s also partly that many people actively want to be excluded from web search (which is fine on the microblogging side of fedi, but it makes less sense here)

        • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
          5·
          3 hours ago

          What? Maybe the client you’re using isn’t a great one, but the fediverse search is awesome. Reddit’s otoh, is notoriously shit.

          • DaGeek247@fedia.io
            7·
            3 hours ago

            I use the fedia.io search, and also search engines to try and find what I’m after. Ddg barely has any fediverse results at all and none of them are relevant. The fedia search sometimes has what I’m after, but I have to treat like the oldschool searches that didn’t even allow for words being misspelled in order to find anything.

            If I’m searching for a synonym to what I type, there’s no hope for me using the fedia.io tool.

            • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
              5·
              2 hours ago

              Oh, I see what you mean. I thought you meant within the sites. You’re right, the fediverse doesn’t really show anymore. There was a short window when it did, but I think the big corps shut that shit down.