I've seen RSS been brought up a couple of times. But I wonder how people use it. I use RSS, but for news and such I don't want to follow specific sites, because

I've seen RSS been brought up a couple of times. But I wonder how people use it. I use RSS, but for news and such I don't want to follow specific sites, because they just tend to post way too much stuff I don't give two hoots about. I've tried in the past and compared to the articles voted forth on Reddit it just feels like digging for gold in a garbage dump.. Are there any curated feeds? Or even something like a feed based on voting?