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!
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
I’ve been posting niche stuff on a country instance.
I use a few sites to manually summarise the article, a majority I use SMMRY which is what the autotldr bot used to use.
I hated reddit with its lack of submission statements and I see similar happening around here. Some people are doing them and I love it, others refuse to so it’s frustrating to decide to click through. Tildes.net gives you a word count so you know how much time you need to commit. I’m of the mind that a submission statement if summarised well can educate if people don’t want to click through. A single title rarely helps anyone.
There should be some examples in my profile.
I think at this point there should be a LLM extension which does it quickly for you everytime you end up on an article.
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.
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.
lemmy.world already has one: https://lemmy.world/u/tldrbot.
seems to work pretty good.
It’s dead already. Click and look at first post.
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.