Same as it ever was

I wanna report this post because i see myself in the picture.

I prefer to only read the top line of a meme then post. And no that’s not a Lemmy user, that’s squidward

No!! Lemmings don’t rush in water they live in holes🐭

Not just here. Everywhere!

No one is here to discuss anything in good faith.

I thought it was standard operating procedure on the Internet.

Give me an archive link and I’ll click it every time. Otherwise, almost never.

Sir, this is a meme.

I feel personally attacked

Tldr?

Not necessarily a bad thing though.

Think of it this way: There’s value in having access to a list of curated content others have deemed “worth reading or looking at”. But there is just as much value in engaging in some banter, provided it doesn’t lead to outright war in the comments.

I admit, it is tiresome trying to seriously discuss a topic when people haven’t actually read the article, but there is still an upside to a topic triggering at least enough interest to where people actually want to engage.

If it’s paywalled, yes. I’m just reading the title.

Why would I risk my psyche, phone, and integrity going to a infested wild media web page, it’s like you think this is reddit and I’m a curious teen

1. modern websites are a pain to navigate with popups, paywall, ads, heavy tracking that slows down navigation, autoplaying video ads etc

2. modern journalism = let’s just report whatever the person or company says without fact checking, contextualizing or taking a stance. I believe this is done because it takes less effort and because it makes sure that the news org doesn’t anger any of the persons/organizations it has tides with (for ads or direct funding)

The comments solve both problems, as lemmy is ad- and tracking-free and the people in the comments are mostly real people usually without any vested interests in the things they’re discussing.

So OBVIOUSLY I only read the comments. I’ll get the content of the article indirectly as it’s being discussed.