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Graph showing the reading density of a blog post. There is a peak at the very beginning, after which lots of readers bail. But for the rest of the article, the density is mostly flat, indicating that the readers that made it through the first 2% mostly stuck around till the end.

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Graph showing the reading density of a blog post. There is a peak at the very beginning, after which lots of readers bail. But for the rest of the article, the density is mostly flat, indicating that the readers that made it through the first 2% mostly stuck around till the end.
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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺 (bert_hubert@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 23:57:32 JST bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺

Part of our global dumbing down is the assumption no one wants to read anything anymore. This leads to ever briefer articles. Which sucks, since the world is too complicated to be understood through soundbites alone. However, if you invest time in decent writing & do the measurements, you find that tens of thousands of people DO read 3200 word posts straight through to the end:

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