"Planets" Cannot Replace Social Control Media, They're Very Much Akin to It (Censorship Hubs, Gatekeepers)
Don't be subjected to gaslighting; make your own OPML file
"Planets" predate Social Control Media (or social control networks) as we know it. I was on some "planets" about 20 years ago (my personal blog) and the inclusion in those "planets" meant that I needed not to go "astray" to certain topics, or else risk consequences. So in effect, "planets" can be a mechanism for self-censorship, just like Social Control Media with suspensions, shadow-bans, groupthink, algo-speak, and cancel culture.
This subject was discussed a lot in IRC and elsewhere this week (some of it in channels that are publicly logged), but the gist of it is, except for planets, which are like pre-social control media construct to the same effect, nobody gets an RSS feed (URL) banned for 'CoC violations' or DMCA or...
So use RSS, both as a publisher and as a reader. Do not subscribe to things via "planets", subscribe directly to pertinent sites/blogs. There are efficient ways to scan those for updates and aggregate them all; do not rely on middlemen or caching by third parties.
Take Planet GNOME for example; this week it is pushing Microsoft blogs of Miguel de Icaza and Poettering. Did you subscribe to these? Whose decision/choice was it? If not yours, why?
The same issue applies to videos; as an associate put it: "Well, seeing as how YouTube demonetizes videos with "Linux" in the title, "normie" means quite a heinous agenda."
When you hear "normie" think CoC. The "Big Platforms" tend to censor anything but conventional and conformist "content" that is deemed "advertiser-friendly" or, as they might spin it, "safe".
Thankfully, many "planets" give a list of all the individual RSS feeds in their sidebar (some offer the list as an OPML file). Take advantage of that. █