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Oh I can actually answer something, neat.
I thought I was missing the appeal too, but when I got back into tabletop roleplaying games, a lot of the community is located over on Substack blogs, and I don't like Substack. My solution was to start running FreshRSS and put all of the feeds into it so I could read at my own pace, and also not have to go to a million sites to keep track of content. Saves me a lot of tabs in an internet browser, if nothing else.
Sadly, not all sites or blogs have RSS feeds to hand out, but I've used https://openrss.org/ to get around that for the most part if they don't.
which blogs do you follow over on substack? ive never had the issue of feeling like a lot of ttrpg people are there, most people i follow are most active on their own sites (eg troypress, jeremy strandberg) or, tragically, on discord.