Most of the time the article is the same length as the headline.

What even is journalism these days?

More like hecklines because they give such heckin complete and objective information

“Best I can do is come to the comments and get my info from there”

I can’t read. I use voice to text to post random repugnant opinions to the fediverse.

Wow… this is something that users on The Site That Shall Not Be Named were especially hostile about. Even if you made an irrelevant spelling mistake, it was like people couldn’t wait to be first to tell you to “read the fucking article.”

Actually, a lot of them didn’t even care about being first. Have eight people already commented “read the article”? So what? Might as well say the exact same thing a ninth time!

Why read the article when the journalist just uses the headline for their ChatGPT prompt?

Aside from clickbait headlines subconsciously making opening links even more sus than it already is, they all just want you to go to the actual article so they can track at the very least their pagevisits for personal validation, leaving you either with misunderstandable headlines or “…and this is what happened next…”-cliffhangers.

Anyway, crossposting an article on many mediums - instead of making it on one external site and posting the link to other mediums - usually solves the problem. I’ll be more likely to read the entirety of anything òn the website I’m at than I am to follow external links to the unknown website people “thought was safe enough”. 😅