This is exactly what I'm looking for, but the UX is pretty terrible. THe bot can clearly handle direct messages but it just refuses to for some unknown reason. It very much looks like a dark pattern to me.

@miki This is the kind of feedback that makes no one want to work on new things: immediately labeling the UX of a "beta" RSS application as terrible 7 hours after its initial release and calling what is potentially a small oversight a "dark pattern", which is objectively a very negative phrase to label a situation that is likely not even insidious or attempting to hoodwink users privacy at all. Why not just make a suggestion instead of coming in hot like this?

@tristan This is clearly not an oversight. It would be an oversight if the bot straight up ignored DMs. The bot is specifically coded so that it replies to DMs, telling you that DMs aren't supported. I find it very hard to believe doing that was less work than actually making DMs handled correctly.

@miki The service is open source. I can't see a reason that they chose to deny DMs upon quickly glancing through, but I would assume best faith interpretation until otherwise indicated. It's possible that it's just an artificial way to throttle down on people spamming, since folks will be obligated to air their RSS feeds in some kind of public venue. It'd be lovely to have a bit more privacy here, but I still sincerely doubt this is done intentionally to harm.