Reddit is shutting down its RSS feeds today, blaming scrapers. That's almost certainly not the real reason. According to Reddit's CEO, "Reddit will become a mostly logged-in site, starting with tests outside the US. On the earnings call that day, he laid out why. People who are logged in can be shown better-targeted ads, they're harder to scrape, and they already bring in more than 80% of Reddit's revenue." It's all about the money, which is always the risk when you depend on a commercial platform to form community. "It's you, signed in, looking at an ad." This post links to a number of actual sources for popular Reddit feeds (after all, a lot of Reddit posts are just copypasta from the original source).
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