I found a good rhythm for myself. I’m still subscribed to many political communities but I don’t get involved in every post. Might sound self-evident, but it’s something about letting the first reaction subside and spend just one more second looking at the thing before I decide to click or not.
Also: headlines suck. These days, it seems 99% of media outlets - including the good ones - make clickbait/kneejerk headlines. Most cases, when I read the first paragraph of the article, I go: oooh, that is much less dramatic than I first thought!
I found a good rhythm for myself. I’m still subscribed to many political communities but I don’t get involved in every post. Might sound self-evident, but it’s something about letting the first reaction subside and spend just one more second looking at the thing before I decide to click or not.
Also: headlines suck. These days, it seems 99% of media outlets - including the good ones - make clickbait/kneejerk headlines. Most cases, when I read the first paragraph of the article, I go: oooh, that is much less dramatic than I first thought!