The current RSS/Atom and web ecosystem                                  [06/17]

* RSS/Atom is still alive: despite sometimes people saying it is dead :)

* Recently (in June) the Atom format celebrated its 20 year birthday:
  https://www.rssboard.org/news/213/atom-feed-format-born-20-years-ago

* Fortunately many sites and frameworks support RSS/Atom.  Many sites don't
  have to consciously support them, because software and frameworks such as
  Wordpress or typo3 support RSS by default.  Even many major news sites use
  Wordpress. This also helps in keeping RSS alive.

* As usual big-tech(tm)(c)(r) wants to kill RSS/Atom to increase engagement
  with their advertisements etc.

  * A tip for RSS/Atom readers: some sites or CDNs block clients that don't
    send a User-Agent header or use the default curl.  This can be changed by
    setting the curl option -H 'User-Agent: 007'.
    or
    'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) 
                 Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0'

