Post #2405985

2026-05-11 02:10 UTC

I looked through Common Crawl and found over 300,000 parseable RSS/Atom feeds, confirming that Web feeds are still a major part of the Open Web. But most aren’t high quality, and autodiscovery often points users at stale or abandoned feeds. https://mnot.net/blog/2026/feed-survey

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@kriskowal@social.coop 2026-05-11 02:22

@mnot@techpolicy.social ♩ ring ring ring ring ring ring ring … guano phone.

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@piggo@piggo.space 2026-05-11 05:42

@mnot@techpolicy.social fair to blame poor quality on many feed authors not actually consuming them? Demise of Google reader could play a part, I know of no good free replacement

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@dwlt@mastodon.me.uk 2026-05-11 07:10

@mnot@techpolicy.social At the risk of throwing another format, how does JSON Feed fit in?

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@edavies@functional.cafe 2026-05-11 10:50

@mnot@techpolicy.social Just tried your extension in Firefox and it doesn't work on your own feed menu. Looking at your feed-menu.json file it shows a list with one map item with keys “title” and “url”. The Internet Draft, in contrast, requires quite a bit richer format: menu title, items list, “feed-title” rather than “title“ and “atom” or “rss” instead of “url”. I think your sample feed needs updating to your current thinking on the subject.

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@KasTasMykolas@river.group.lt 2026-05-11 14:13

@mnot@techpolicy.social interestingly, CommonCrawl covers ~0.2% of the medias with RSS or ATOM mime-type: https://commoncrawl.github.io/cc-crawl-statistics/plots/mimetypes Also, plenty of feeds are raporting good old xml instead.

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