> Is that wasteful? Does that make me a poor Internet citizen?
I personally don't think it's a problem. As I said, "a very popular site with that many millions of visitors already has to handle extreme traffic, regardless of RSS."
> I'd never considered using RSS feeds from an app and pulling it directly. I have too many devices for that to be a great workflow.
A lot of apps have sync to handle that workflow.
> my gut feeling on this is that the people still using RSS and people self-hosting would overlap in a big way.
My gut feeling is that most RSS users, including myself, simply use client apps.
Is that wasteful? Does that make me a poor Internet citizen?
I'd never considered using RSS feeds from an app and pulling it directly. I have too many devices for that to be a great workflow.
Normally I'd say I was an outlier, but my gut feeling on this is that the people still using RSS and people self-hosting would overlap in a big way.