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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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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 23:57:32 JST Rich Felker

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     @bert_hubert Premise is false. The root cause is that reading the longform articles is pointless. They're all filler and fluff aside from one or two sentences of information. If you expand the article to read the detailed facts enough times and find no facts, just drivel and language intended to manipulate your opinion, you learn to stop expanding them.

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     bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺 (bert_hubert@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 00:04:29 JST bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias thanks I guess?

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 00:04:29 JST Rich Felker

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     @bert_hubert Sorry I guess I'm kinda bitter about the state of journalism.