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Has anyone else been reading linked articles more often on Lemmy? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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When mindlessly browsing Reddit, I found that I usually just jump directly to the comments, read a couple, and continue. Lemmy seems a bit more curated (read: smaller), and therefore it's easier to actually engage in discussions, which leads me to read the article, think critically about it, and respond (if I have something to say) in the comments--bigger is not always better!

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I've noticed I was reliant on the TLDR bots that shorten news articles by like 70%.

I kinda miss them because of simplicity and efficiency, but I'm not minding the actual comment discussions

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think at this point there should be a LLM extension which does it quickly for you everytime you end up on an article.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm torn.

Yes, article summaries can be nice, and often demonstrate just how unnecessarily wordy the original is.

On the other hand, not needing to follow links to the original is at least part of what's killing original creators, especially journalists and their outlets. As much as we dislike ads, subscriptions, and requests for donations, those are what fund the sources we most cherish.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

there are too much journalists. if they agree to consolidate into less numerous news outlets and share a universal pay to read platform (the same concept of flipboard), i would gladly pay/or allow ad playback. but they agreed to disagree, they now must bear the consequences.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lemmy.world already has one: https://lemmy.world/u/tldrbot.
seems to work pretty good.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

actual comment discussions

I sincerely hope that everything stays this way. Filtering, tagging and reporting users who constantly was posting those obnoxious low effort oneliners was basically becoming a full time job. It killed all the discussions in the bigger subs. It's already obvious on some of the bigger instances/communities that some users unfortunately just switched platform.

Personally I didn't like some of the popular bots like autotldr but I can see why other people did.

[–] WhatASave 2 points 1 year ago

I've seen a few of those bots on Lemmy, so it might just depend on what community/instance it's posted on. I'm sure more will come :)