diff --git a/lib/rss.js b/lib/rss.js
index d117d49f..ae1e3b26 100644
--- a/lib/rss.js
+++ b/lib/rss.js
@@ -1,12 +1,24 @@
 const SITE_URL = 'https://stacker.news'
 const SITE_TITLE = 'Stacker News'
-const SITE_SUBTITLE = 'Like Hacker News, but with sats'
+const SITE_SUBTITLE = 'Like Hacker News, but we pay you Bitcoin.'
+
+function escapeXml (unsafe) {
+  return unsafe.replace(/[<>&'"]/g, function (c) {
+    switch (c) {
+      case '<': return '&lt;'
+      case '>': return '&gt;'
+      case '&': return '&amp;'
+      case '\'': return '&apos;'
+      case '"': return '&quot;'
+    }
+  })
+}
 
 const generateRssItem = (item) => {
   return `
     <item>
       <guid>${SITE_URL}/items/${item.id}</guid>
-      <title>${item.title}</title>
+      <title>${escapeXml(item.title)}</title>
       <link>${SITE_URL}/items/${item.id}</link>
       <pubDate>${new Date(item.createdAt).toUTCString()}</pubDate>
     </item>
@@ -16,14 +28,14 @@ const generateRssItem = (item) => {
 export default function generateRssFeed (items) {
   const itemsList = items.map(generateRssItem)
   return `
-    <rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" version="2.0">
+    <rss version="2.0">
       <channel>
         <title>${SITE_TITLE}</title>
         <link>${SITE_URL}</link>
         <description>${SITE_SUBTITLE}</description>
         <language>en</language>
         <lastBuildDate>${new Date().toUTCString()}</lastBuildDate>
-        <atom:link href="${SITE_URL}" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/>
+        <link>${SITE_URL}</link>
         ${itemsList.join('')}
       </channel>
     </rss>