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
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’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 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.