Absolutely agreed! It's just in my personal case, I've shifted towards actively seeking content rather than having it passively delivered by subscribing/following. But you're definitely right regarding simple accounts and self-filtering. :)

Unfortunately you'll still get recommended and get thrown into the rabbit hole. Some things are better abstained from. It takes energy and discipline and mental bandwidth to consciously choose not to click on clickbait suggestions numerous times while attempting to focus on the one channel.

If I use a Twitter list, I don't get ads or recommended tweets/accounts (so far anyway). I believe there's a similar feature for Facebook, but I mostly use that for Messenger these days, not looking at a feed.