mzumquadrat

I use it heavily and daily. I have over a hundred feeds now. The main thing I am using it for is YouTube. Every, I think public, playlist and every channel has its own RSS feed. You can install a Firefox extension of whom I forgot the name to expose the feed to you or you can use for example miniflux to directly subscribe to the channel by URL. The feeds aren’t subjected to the engagement algorithm AFAIK. So from my subjective perspective you get the unfiltered content. Other than that I also follow a lot of blogs, news and a few webcomics.

If you are able to switch away from Proton VPN in the long run you could use the new tailscale/mullvad partnership to use mullvad as an exit node. https://tailscale.com/kb/1258/mullvad-exit-nodes/

But you can’t tell them how to find content if you aren’t explaining to them how federation works at least on a basic level. Because they need to understand that not every community is on the server they have their account on and if they want to follow certain communities they have to search for them with this (otherwise) weird string that is somehow containing a part of another website.