- Don't read the comments. If you are on FB/HN/Reddit, you are not coming across news organically, but rather from a feed that is based on a black box of votes and engagement metrics. You open the comments thinking you'll be talking to people with a broad range of views, and that will rarely happen.
- Comments on political topics are doubly exhausting to consume, as you are processing not just the article's thesis, but also the volume of comments, many of which are often phrased in a "Debate me!" way, that's not conducive to learning something new or changing your viewpoint on something.
- Slow, long form news >> live feed news. Internet browsing has changed as the medium adapted to consumption of news on mobile. Everything is excessively short so its easily consumable and (ugh) shareable, and the trickle of articles with limited net-new information makes you think you need to be online all the time to keep up. You don't. Subscribe to a newspaper and read the daily edition at your leisure. With the daily edition you'll get a discrete amount of content that's time-bounded, whereas the web edition has no beginning and no end, and can feel impossible to keep up with.