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I've started to more and more recently, but I wonder if others here do the same?

It's easy to just see them as nothing more than window-dressing and just ignore them, at least at times.

I'm wondering how many people take the time to read them or at least skim through them.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I read them when the topic interests me and might actually have some interesting insight. When it's posted to make fun of the MSM's narratives, there really isn't a reason to read is there?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Often yes. It depends on how much time I have at that moment and whether I am in an environment that is conducive to longform reading (at my desk) or not (my phone). Probably 70-30 or so overall?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

70 good, 30 bad, gotch

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

50-50, also I have periods when I look here a lot and periods where my attention is in other places

  • more inclined to engage if parts of the article was highlighted/quoted in the text belonging to the 'grad post, but then again, I might not have a reason to actually click thru to the article
  • prefer not to click off especially if it's hegemonic newsmedia nyt bbc economist etc as more often than not they write FOR headlines than detailed content. also paywalls
  • despite that, depending on the topic, I might be less lazy and find an archive or mirror to give it a peek
  • more likely to see what's up and read/skim if it's other publications and I think more likely to glean value from.
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

I read them usually

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

You can often catch having a discussion with yogthos over the news of the day. Best part of lemmygrad imo.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If there is an archive link cause half the stuff is paywalled. I'm more inclined to if people are talking about it in comments already.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What are the "articles"? Just the links? Yes, I have a rule I don't reply to a thread before reading everything. It irks me when people reply to headlines.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

If the topic is interesting to me then most of the time I do read them

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I mostly lurk here, so yeah I read pretty much every article. If I'm being honest I prefer them over a lot of the memes.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

That's what separates lemmygrad from hexbear tbh. It's not full or garbage, low effort shit with powerposters (who sometimes post multiple threads a day) posing absolute trash posts like "if i eat beanis will i shit out of my ass????" Honestly I think they are crying out for help/attention/etc. with all that shit. What's sad is that those posts flood out real posts, especially comrades looking for mutual aid.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Not all but most of them yeah.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm new to Lemmy, what are 'articles'?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's what I figured, but I got confused. Do people really not read the linked sources?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

that's kinda what I'm testing

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Articles are unrolled 𝕏itter threads.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

they're fictional tales with some allegorical uses if you dig real deep

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Yeah I skim em