I wish I can upvote this 100 times.
I skip posts with articles that have 0 comments and wait for the smartiaian who will read the article and summarize the 2 sentences.
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2026
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I like to browse by new, but that also means most things have no comments. Which sort do you usually use?
Top 12h. It gets boring sometimes though.
I recommend "new comments".
I wish I can upvote this 100 times.
That wouldn‘t be very democratic now, would it?
That wouldn‘t be very democratic now, would it?
I TOLD you, we're an anarcho-syndicalist commune! We take it in turns, to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. But all the decisions OF that officer must be ratified at a special biweekly meeting, by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, or by a TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY in the case of more immediate...
I hate this on gaming communities:
This fast-paced shooter is reinventing the format, taking the Steam charts by storm!
Just tell me the fucking name of the game so I can tell if I've already heard of it or if this is actually new information.
You didn‘t say the name either. 😭
I just made up a typical clickbait headline, I wasn't talking about any game in particular...
No you didn‘t. This was an actual title of a thread in the largest game community the other day. I don‘t remember the title either, though.
If it was it was a complete coincidence, I literally just pulled something clickbaity out of my ass to illustrate the point. Just tells you how similar and boilerplate these headlines are becoming, though.
Hard agree. I tend to ignore posts that only provide a link and nothing else.
At the very least highlight something of the text in the post description that is worth reading to create a discussion, and then give us your two cents in the comments.
Oh yeah, and the posts with just a youtube link and a title that doesn't adequately describe it drive me nuts.
ETA 1min later I see the perfect example https://lemmy.zip/post/58083735
On the other end of the spectrum are post descriptions that copy the entire article and you’re met with a giant wall of text. It’s about curation, folks!
Let's also not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Aka. discredit any and all content just because of a clickbaity title.
Veritasium does a good deep dive into Clickbait:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng
I don't discredit them but I often avoid them, both because they give me no reason to watch/read them, and also just out of spite.
If something is obvious click bait I do the same, but many legit authors use clickbait because it's needed in this attention economy.
(see the video link I posted above)
I saw the video you posted when it was published several years ago. I don't care why they do it.
Your own posts have clickbaity titles.
https://piefed.social/u/artyom
It's sadly basically unavoidable
Why don't more distros use this method? (click here and find out)
Your own posts have clickbaity titles.
No they don't.
It's sadly basically unavoidable
It's absolutely not. Even if it were, including context when sharing third party links is also not unavoidable.
Why don't more distros do this... (click here and find out)
You can't click it and find out, because I don't know. It was a genuine question. There's a picture explaining exactly what I'm talking about. I don't make money using this account, I have no motivation to use clickbait.
I agree adding context is great, ideally even add a summary so a person doesn't have to click.
"You can click it and find out." How is that not clickbait?
"You can click it and find out." How is that not clickbait?
Read it again. You missed a letter.
Oh my bad lol, didn't have a close enough look at that post
Veritasium does a good deep dive into Clickbait:
Veritasium is owned by an private investor firm and has his own problems with propaganda.
Veritasium's newest video was so clickbaity. I watched for 15 minutes and he didn't get to the part where he explains the title. I quit watching when he interviewed a professor at a university in Israel. Those universities design weapons for mass murder of civilians.
Why put the summary in the comments instead of the post text?
Because I am not OP in that situation.
Oooh...
That was unclear. It sounded like you were talking about posting.
Fixed, thanks
As much as I dislike ai, this is why I enjoyed the short lived “Artifact” news website (Yahoo bought them out). Their feed had a feature where you could report a click bait title and it would use ai to turn it into a normal sentence. If enough people clicked it, that would become how it was seen by people. I really dislike people using the click bait title on the fediverse, but it’s a symptom of the internet today as a whole.
I've got posts taken down because I made up a descriptive non clickbait title. The mods didn't like it.
Do you have some examples?