Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots
speckx
28 points
22 comments
September 30, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (12 comments)
OutOfHere
Friends shouldn't let friends use Reddit, but what is the comparable primary substitute?
ChrisArchitect
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1wubgvt/continuing...
lapcat
I follow Reddit exclusively via RSS. I moderate a product support subreddit and contribute my technical expertise to various Apple-related subreddits. But no more. Reddit is now dead to me. This is like Twitter all over again: they attract technical users with openness, supporting RSS and a 3rd party API. Then after they get enough users addicted and locked in, they close the service, killing the open web. The future of Reddit is clearly continuing enshittification, just like Twitter/X. AI scraping was merely a current convenient excuse. They hate RSS feeds because the user controls what they see, not the force-fed algorithm. Ironically, Reddit had already been rate-limiting their RSS feeds: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/6/3.html
Cyan488
The Reddit team talks about RSS like it got hit by a truck or something. > Sorry about this - we're sad too, RSS feeds have had a great long life on the open web. > We know RSS feeds have been a beloved open web tool. Correction: RSS HAS a great life on the open web, RSS IS a beloved open web tool.
feverzsj
Yes, more enshittfication.
beardyw
Is no one looking at the problem? It is not caused by Reddit, it is not caused by RSS, it's caused by misuse of something many of us value by/for AI. AI is not just biting the hand that feeds it, it's killing it.
m4rtink
What a convenient excuse.
kittikitti
AI bots are perfectly able to scrape Reddit if it's through their paid API. Their statements about AI bots scraping Reddit is misleading.
TMWNN
Ugh. I have always used an RSS reader (currently Inoreader) to follow various subreddits, as opposed to just going to reddit.com.
altairprime
The headline really undersells the star of the show, ‘Reddit improves value proposition of their training firehose product’, in favor of presenting them as a victim.
webarchitect
This should read - Were worried that RSS is hurting our AD revenue and paid API so we're removing it.
zb3
They just want to be the only ones being able to sell the content made by its users to AI companies for training purposes.