Read theory, it's literally online for free. Join a reading group. You spend hours doom scrolling on Twitter to no end. All that's gotten you is deep knowledge of every twitter beef between 400 follower nazbols.
Edit: It’s not an issue with the site but online discourse about the left in general. Why are y'all upset about shoeonhead or black hammer or whatever new group of dumbasses is saying some new dumb shit. I'm talking about how every few days lots of leftists are surprised and upset that their fav twitter personality said something really stupid.
Yeah, agree with that. One of the overlooked benefits of pods is the insight into conversations around the reading. Conversations that would have been had in reading groups or union halls or meetings back in the day, that we're not having because of the atomised lives we lead now. People hearing these conversations, even parasocially, from the outside, has value imo.