If you want to see through the noise, you can't, well you can but there are compromises. I am not a fan of compromising.
Social media has consistently been the biggest point of contention for me. I thought RSS was the cure to that however the actual idea of a connected network media, it falls apart. AT Protocol is a great concept and I want Mastodon and Bluesky to win over X/Twitter but when using these platforms I still have this feeling of just more of the same, a solid social media experience but with far too much content I don't care to see. Too much noise over signal.
I think with the ease of creating sites now I will stand strong with thinking a gallery hosted on a personal site beats Facebook and Instagram. Reddit although massive is a forum page, same as Stack Overflow and the like, those aren't going anywhere and don't need to. Then there just remains the live town square and news boards, which currently the best option for would be X/Bluesky/Mastodon, though in order to cut down on the noise you'd need a distraction free extension to strip away the recommendations and the for you page and everything else that isn't just the timeline you chose.
GitHub and YouTube both earn their place, Microsoft and Google have pockets that can afford to keep up and run the infrastructure for a global code store and a global video store. Amazon, Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist largely take care of consumer market facilitation outside of software distribution. These things are solved or close enough to solved.
Out of all the social media platforms YouTube is actually the one I had to fight the hardest to quit, and I stand by that the content I was consuming on average far exceeded that of any other platform, to a point where I'd likely be alright with my child consuming general content in mass on YouTube over any other social media platform. For now I think disabling watch history to kill the auto recommendations or going further with browser extensions or custom mobile apps to hide any of the "noise" is the move.
So what's left is RSS plus a small layer on top of it. I propose a very light system to fill the gap between everything, built around two ideas, reposting and vouching. Vouching is inspired by Mitchell Hashimoto's concept of the same name. The idea is simple, if this vouch system was employed on the social reposting layer it could add an optional discovery feed, but not one driven by an algorithm deciding what you should see. Instead it would be based on people that are trusted by people already within your RSS community, someone you follow vouches for someone, that person's content surfaces, and only then. Trust propagates through the network rather than engagement metrics. In order for this to have the adoption rate it needs I plan on ensuring it will have the technical capabilities of RSSHub and Full Text RSS built in, so that there is truly a single layer to handle everything through.
OmiRSS will likely be my attempt at this. The biggest personal arguments would be whether or not I build a commenting system and or a direct messenger built in. I would assume that commenting within this app would be far more controlled given the nature, but allowing the door for annoying bots etc I may need to police is not so appealing. The direct messenger is a valuable feature I see in X however how far removed would that be within the RSS feed focus rather than communication, but perhaps that is the bridge between pointless banter and genuine connection. I suppose I haven't concluded.