Reddit RSS feeds stop on November 13: what homelab readers and automations should do

Plenty of homelabs watch subreddits like r/selfhosted or r/homelab through FreshRSS, Miniflux, Inoreader, n8n or a Home Assistant feed sensor. That stops working soon.

What Reddit announced

• On September 30, 2026, Reddit told moderators it will stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13, 2026, citing scraping and automated abuse (The Next Web).
• In Reddit’s words: “If you use RSS for feeds outside of a community you moderate, there is no replacement.” Moderators are pointed to a Developer Platform (Devvit) app called Discord Relay.
• New public API access requests end October 31, 2026. Unregistered apps start losing API access on January 12, 2027, and remaining public access closes in March 2027 (Decrypt).
• Feed readers confirm it: Inoreader says it can’t fetch new Reddit posts once Reddit stops serving the feeds (Inoreader blog).

What breaks in a typical homelab

• .rss subscriptions in FreshRSS, Miniflux, Tiny Tiny RSS or Inoreader stop getting new items. They may not show an error, so they just go quiet.
• n8n, Node-RED or Huginn flows that poll reddit.com/r/<sub>/new/.rss stop triggering.
• Release-watch hacks. If you watched a subreddit to hear about app updates, switch to the project’s own source.

What to switch to

1. Follow the project directly. GitHub has an Atom feed for every repo’s releases: https://github.com/<owner>/<repo>/releases.atom. That’s more reliable than a subreddit for update news.
2. Follow the publishers. Many subreddits mostly link out to sites that have their own feeds. FeedsBar checked 25 big subreddits and published replacement feeds and OPML files (feeds.bar).
3. Self-hosted bridges such as RSSHub or RSS-Bridge can still generate feeds, but they depend on Reddit’s pages and may break or get rate-limited. Treat them as best-effort.
4. Newsletters and fediverse. Self-Host Weekly covers r/selfhosted-type news, and Lemmy communities and Mastodon hashtags still publish RSS.
5. Moderators: set up Discord Relay before November 13.

Checklist before Nov 13

• Search your reader and automations for reddit.com and list each feed.
• Replace release-watching feeds with GitHub releases.atom or SafeToUpdate’s own feed.
• Remove dead feeds afterwards so they don’t sit silently.

SafeToUpdate tracks releases for the self-hosted apps on our apps page, with a risk verdict for each.