I read just the headline
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My subscription feed is very small, selective. Then I read about a 25% of these articles, and another 25% I think the headline tells me all.
If it is youtube links instead of articles, I click on only 1% of them. Most are just a huge waste of time even when their topic is interesting. People who post youtube links without writing a personal summary should get stabbed in their asses on both sides, so they can't sit for four weeks :-)
Lol the hurricane is literally heading your direction.
Nope no hurricane, I'm gonna cover my eyes and ears. I didn't see anything. Just let me die in peace. Noooooo!
Depends on the article.
If it's something I have a genuine interest in, then heck yeah, I read the article. I like me some long-form discussion, so if it's a high quality article then I need to read it in order to make a high quality comment.
If it's about politics it requires more nuance. I'm not going to stay quiet about things that do have the potential to affect me, the people I care about, and humans in general. I'm also not going to go out of my way to consume a ton of propaganda. That's when the pithy jokes come in, usually with a goal of calling out misinformation or general assholery.
By and large, the vast majority of headlines are bait. You're not going to get a clear picture of what's going on from a loaded title anyway, and it's alarming how often people make the opposite inference from the headline compared to the body of the article. I suppose it's human nature to look for easy answers, but if you only look at the summary then you're allowing other people to form your opinion for you. Those people always have an agenda.
In this political climate, the news is probably going to make the average reader angry. If it does that means it's working - either because they're consuming hateful propaganda or because they're being agitated against the evils of the establishment. This is by design: you can garner more clicks from angry, frightened people, and they're usually easier to control that way.
I agree that you can't take on the burdens of the world as an individual. But ignoring problems that have no will to resolve themselves only allows those issues to perpetuate themselves. Something about evil succeeding when good people do nothing.
I do basic research, and vote, and then basically ignore the news and wash the sins off of me. I aint responsible for how everyone else voted. I voted, I did my part. If evil wins, that wasn't my fault.
Now I can skim headlines and make jokes in the comments while I wait to see what happens in the future.
I just read wikipedia's portal of current events for world news. The whole articles.
Newspapers I don't read, and i block news articles on social media.
Hmm I don't really know if relying on wikipedia is a good idea. Seems like more prone to false info than the news. I'd rather just have no info than potentially false info that makes me biased.
Seems like more prone to false info than the news.
How so?
Just the headline
Both
I don't click most links due to online tracking although fedi crowd is pretty good about cleaning up tracking links.
Either way, most media is owner class asset used to shill their interest. So reading that shit aint nothing but reading some rich old clowns opinion on the issue.
Comment section is where real discussion happens anyway.
I drop my 2 cents to see how it resonates and what counter points I can gather. Most of the time it is people screeching some owner sanctioned bullshit...
so much bootlicking or tankies...
I don't click most links due to online tracking
I installed URLCheck from F-Droid on my android phone and tablet. It lets me review the link before it opens, tells me what each parameter does, and lets me remove specific/all parameters so I can just go to the direct link. No more trackers in links!
Yes, usually, but I'm more frequently using the Read Aloud extension. It's the least effort that gets me there.