RSS Shutdowns as Data Chokepoints

When major social platforms disable RSS and public APIs, they turn low‑barrier, decentralized access points into centralized, permissioned channels. That shift forces researchers, journalists, and small developers either to accept restricted, commercialized access or to resort to fragile scraping workarounds. — This reframes a technical product change as a governance and public‑interest issue: who controls conversational data that informs research, reporting, and AI models.