[JFingleton]

RSS is the technological backbone that enables the distribution and subscription of podcasts...which by the way is massive at the moment.

As others have stated, plenty of websites have RSS feeds.

[rauli_]

That used to be the case few years ago. Now it seems that all popular podcasts are hidden inside commercial services such as Spotify.

[rhdunn]

Podcasts tend to be available from different sources to extend their reach YouTube and Spotify don't offer RSS feeds, however other services like redcirle.com, megaphone.fm, anchor.fm, and audioboom.com all offer RSS feeds. Even Apple should as it has a set of iTunes extensions for RSS to annotate things like the episode number.

I've been able to find RSS feeds for all the podcasts I listen to.

[esseph]

Nope

Still get all of my podcasts via RSS. Several dozen.

[bpye]

> As others have stated, plenty of websites have RSS feeds.

It’s a bit of a mixed bag though - whilst some big websites still have an RSS feed, you can’t get the full article text, smaller blogs etc seem to be better in that regard.

[account42]

Is that really a problem though? I usually want to read something on the original website anyway as RSS is a lot more limited (or at least inconsistent) in what kind of styling and media is supported. What I care about is getting notified of updates to sites/people I follow without having to rely on a centralized gatekepper and RSS does that really well.

[crtasm]

There are RSS readers which can automatically download the full article text. I use Handy Reading on Android which can also do so on-demand.