Hobbyists and scholars still use Latin, despite its death in ~400AD. It quickly fell out of mainstream use through poor education, lost its influence, lost central steering, and only remnants exist through the patchwork of languages over middle-ages Europe.
RSS is still in use, but it's rarely advertised, today's browsers already refuse to speak it without additional stylesheets, and the spec's largely abandoned. Where will it be in another five years?
You're welcome to your views but whether or not RSS has died is immaterial. I was trying to identify what has replaced RSS between the sites that don't provide it, and users who don't know anything about it. The short answer to that seems to be promoting your content on social media.
RSS is still in use, but it's rarely advertised, today's browsers already refuse to speak it without additional stylesheets, and the spec's largely abandoned. Where will it be in another five years?
You're welcome to your views but whether or not RSS has died is immaterial. I was trying to identify what has replaced RSS between the sites that don't provide it, and users who don't know anything about it. The short answer to that seems to be promoting your content on social media.