But it's sad that apparently the reason it is "better to comply to law enforcement first" is not because they will arrest you but because they will pummel you.
I heard this same sentiment a ton when Twitter first got big. But there are things that RSS is incredibly useful for that Twitter is terrible for, and vice versa.
For RSS, I use it to follow company and engineering feeds: every web browser and every major product all have feeds. e.g., I follow the Safari, Google Chrome, and Firefox browser feeds to learn about current and upcoming updates. And the best part is I can read them only once a week, and they do not disappear from my "timeline".
OTOH, I stopped subscribing to news via RSS years ago. Trying to make sense of every single headline some news site published--usually dozens per day for most of them--is impractical. And while there's a lot of blog authors I like to read, I just can't keep up with them either. Better to just set aside some time once a week and skim their sites.
The thing about Twitter I never liked is the feeling that I had to be on it all the time, every second, or I would "miss" something. But screw that, I have things to do, and I'll catch up when I catch up.
My own biggest issue with data retention is not that these companies collect all this data (they need to for their business models to work) but that they keep all of it, forever, regardless of whether it could possibly still be relevant to any business purpose (such as chat conversions from a decade ago).