You can litterly use RSS everywhere, You just don't know How.
For Android - https://f-droid.org/packages/com.nononsenseapps.feeder/
For IOS - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reeder-5/id1529445840
For Desktop - https://nodetics.com/feedbro/
Linux GTK App - https://gitlab.com/news-flash/news_flash_gtk
Syncing / Self-Hosting - https://github.com/x86dev/docker-ttrss
If you have nextcloud setup, there is a news app there.
If you use thunderbird, you can add feed there. (Apparently It was first used for usenet newsgroups as well)
https://rss-bridge.org/bridge01/
You can get RSS feeds from these Instances, if you Want.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/libredirect/instances/main/data.json
Decide whether you want to follow some stuff in real-time (high-priority) or just Once in a While and curate those Sources on appropriate Platforms.
You can decide whether you want a Full Article or just a Preview.
<image> sub-element of <channel>
This can be used to populate Favicons in the Clients for Better UX.
enclosure sub-element of <item>
Payloads for RSS, Media Files (Mostly used for Podcasts I think)
Frankly for Youtube, Should use a Client.
Android - https://newpipe.net/
IOS - https://uyouplus.com/
Desktop - https://freetubeapp.io/