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

submitted 1 year ago by TeaEarlGrayHot@lemmy.ca to c/main@sh.itjust.works

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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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[–] TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago (7 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

[–] fry@sh.itjust.works 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.

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