I'm leaving Reddit because of RSS

Reddit announced it will stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13, 2026, and the author plans to discontinue Reddit use rather than adapt to that change. He relies on RSS to follow communities and immediately removed links to his product support subreddit from his business site; he’ll shut that subreddit down when he leaves and directs users to email for support. Having left Twitter in 2022, he now uses Mastodon as a preferred replacement and is considering Lemmy, both of which are federated and ActivityPub-based. He says he has no plans to return to Reddit but makes no absolute promise about future permanence.

He criticizes Reddit’s justification that RSS enables large-scale scraping and finds the company’s recommendation that moderators migrate to Devvit apps or route alerts to Discord absurd - he calls it perverse to push a competing network as the practical substitute. He doubts scraping is the real problem, notes Reddit already rate-limits feeds, and proposes much stricter, modest limits (for example, 500-1000 requests per day with a 50-feed cap) that would suit personal use without enabling abuse. He laments leaving because he contributes to discussions and follows useful subreddits, but concludes he can live without Reddit.