In the wake of Meta banning Canadian news organizations in retaliation against Canadian government policy, the Tyee makes the case for RSS — the ingenious proto-social network that fueled the rise of blogging in the '00s.

When I was seventeen, I got a lesson in RSS from a blogger. At the time, you had to send out a "ping" to let the internet know you had published a new blog post. I thought it was so cool.

A decade and a half later, RSS is still a really excellent option for web publishing. You can subscribe to this blog via RSS (or rather, a variant called ATOM that works the same way).