Cool idea!

Yeah, I’ve been using OpenRSS to get the RSS feed of e.g. APNews, but it’s such a sad state of affairs that it feels like RSS is disappearing

Yeah it’s for sure an issue in the rest of the world too. Not discounting that

I really dislike this argument. Just because it’s “their country, their rules” doesn’t not make it an issue? Especially when it comes to privacy concerns. Privacy concerns are universal. There are a plethora of serious issues that are not defended by “national sovereignty”. If that was the case we should just turn a blind eye to North Korea, right?

Yes, because niche communities are much smaller here if not non-existant. Communities about Classical Chinese, poetry, various academic humanities subjects and the like isn’t exactly thriving on here. I try to use the fediverse when I’m able to though, and also try to support smaller communities, but yeah…

If you have an account you can use a VPN. Never had trouble

For a while? Our business used it until … this year. It’s finally EOL this year.

No one ever questions these things. “It’s for the kids!” is the one argument that’ll lead us all to damnation.

Hasn’t RSS support been dropping these last few years? Last I heard was that RSS was dying, though I don’t know how true that is.