I have tried to go back to RSS once I gave up Twitter. But it lacks the instant notification of breaking news that I got from Twitter. Mastodon has mostly fill that role. So I might give RSS another chance for non-breaking news.
Oddly enough I have a police scanner app that has alerts and it is also a good source for breaking incidents.
undefined> lemmyNSFW.com
My use case for Mastodon is quite different than yours. I only look at what I have subscribed to. It was the same way I used twitter. And in this case Mastodon works fine for me and it doesn't even matter what instance I signed up on.
I made sure to delete all my Reddit data before deleting my account. Not getting anything from me.
It is Arkansas. They love to PIT. So many YT videos of them doing it that it is just crazy. They even have some favorite cops they love to see PIT someone.