With Facebook and Twitter you subscribe to people and brands. It is trivially easy to make a social media post so they tend to be more numerous and less useful/

With Facebook and Twitter you subscribe to people and brands. It is trivially easy to make a social media post so they tend to be more numerous and less useful/informative. RSS is usually used to subscribe to blog posts/articles which tend to be more in depth. Someone upthread mentioned a magazine and I think that is a good comparison. Curated long form writing about subjects that interest you makes it quite a bit different than social media. RSS is also handy for following blogs or websites that only post intermittently. RSS and filter bubbles could go either way. Nothing stopping you from filling your feeds with folks that don't think the way you do. Most of us don't have the patience to wade through thoughts contrary to our own. That's the real issue when it comes to popping your filter bubble, not which tool you use to get the info.