When the API is blocked, the RSS feed IS the API

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Most services that publish activity expose RSS even when they offer no programmatic API — WordPress, Substack, Ghost, Letterboxd, YouTube channels, GitHub releases, podcast hosts, Flickr, Tumblr. When credentials are gated or the official client requires keys you can't get, the public RSS endpoint is the substitute: no auth dance, no rate limit politics, just a stateless HTTP GET. The downstream pipeline (sense → inbox → autopilot → recall) is identical whether the data came from OAuth or feedparser.

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