content: I have gotten back into RSS in a big way. Thankfully, RSS was popular during a long, formative period of web development and most of the sites and software from that period are still being used today. People still make new sites with Wordpress, and it comes with RSS feeds by default. It would take some work to completely remove the RSS feeds from a Workpress site. You might have to hack the core code. When I see a site worth following I view the source, search for rss, and almost always find at least one feed URL. No one controls RSS. No one can censor or remove content from RSS because RSS is not a platform. It’s an open standard that anyone can use. Email may be dominated by large, free providers and hidden  6509   spam blocker services, but it’s an open standard too. Google probably blocks the mailing lists of people they don’t like, but you can get setup with any number of email providers who don’t do that. I’ve been watching and supporting other open standards like Mastodon (possible Twitter replacement). We need these more than ever. Another thing to do is use and support small, independent communities and forum sites. It’s easy to find a Reddit section for any interest, but it’s refreshing to join an active forum site that has been around for well over a decade and has nothing to do with any platform like Reddit.