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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    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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      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.

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

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    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?

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      me too; well, from time to time

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

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    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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    I’m new to Lemmy, what are ‘articles’?

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      Articles are unrolled 𝕏itter threads.

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      I mean news items. Links.

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

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          that’s kinda what I’m testing

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

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    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.