Don’t look at software to save you from this problem.

Make yourself scan through the doom pile!
Just scan it. If an article no longer holds your interest, delete it

Next, instead of reading reddit responses, turn them off and just read your darn to-do articles.

No, but now you have to trust yourself with security.

It seems to me to be a bit of the fly vs drive debate. Flying is objectively safer, but lots of people get more freaked out by it because they have zero control over the outcome.