I love RSS/Atom. Completely stopped using the main social medias. With RSS, you are your own newsfeed algorithm. I've been using Newsblur but I will switch away soon. It's too heavy and I'd prefer to self-host.
Now i'm happy using fraidycat (https://fraidyc.at/) because it behaves the way I want: a very active source will only overshadow itself. Instead I have a list of all sources and I can have a quick look of the latest article of each source on the same screen. When I feel a source is too noisy it means I'm not interested in every single post, so I push it down to lower levels of importance, who live in a different tab. I know stuff happens there but I'm rarely interested so it's ok if I check only once a week for example.