idk, i wonder if youtube could even work if you always had to be logged in. when i imagine what most of youtube’s activity is, i think of the foreign music videos with billions of views. could their ad model with those kinds of numbers possibly work if they put account auth barriers in front of it? how many hotel lobbies, barber shops, etc are playing youtube on loop logged out worldwide? netflix level drm would radically change the platform.
rss is working on the instance i’m using. make sure you’re on a recently updated one
along these lines, here’s one that specializes in Japanese games and supports rss by category for large and small developers: https://themakoreactor.com/
and another indie one for JP stuff that maintains RSS: https://noisypixel.net/
i finally remembered the other service that supports app store updates. scroll to Apple App Store here: https://rss-bridge.org/bridge01/
RSS, basically. for software with github releases, there’s an RSS feed for release feeds by appending .atom to the releases page, like https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases.atom
check out nitter.net for twitter RSS, has been going strong through API changes. also since you mentioned Apple stuff, it’s not per small update but they publish major stuff on the Newsroom feed which has an RSS feed: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/rss-feed.rss
also you might like https://www.techmeme.com/ as a high-volume aggregator.
I’ve been thinking of this game in the context of recent discussion about Steam’s laissez-faire content moderation