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I don't think that RSS is a reasonable alternative for social media at all. Different use case for me.
I mean, I'd use it if I had a selection of known sources that publish content regularly that I like enough of to see all the content and have a website. Only a few sources actually meet that bar for me. Then, RSS lets me put a common interface on all of them, combines a list of new content.
I use something like Reddit or the Fediverse to take advantage of people finding useful content elsewhere, which is kind of a different use case.
I mean, you're on social media here, rather than just following an RSS feed, so presumably RSS doesn't replace social media for you either.
I'm coming at it from the opposite side; social media isn't a reasonable alternative to RSS, but people often use it as such. RSS is as you say, for getting updates from specific sources without being at the mercy of a third-party's recommendation algorithm.