Comment on Hotels have developed a new revenue stream: "algorithmic" smoke detectors

• Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I don’t visit any of those sites either, in part because the formatting makes telling a story so challenging.

  Looking onto a page like this, it’s like one story was needlessly chopped up into little bits. Instead of several paragraphs formatted with the purpose of telling a smooth, coherent story, it’s cut into chunks whose only parameter is character length. Outside of modern microblog-style social media, that format doesn’t happen much. The result is scrolling and scrolling to read something that could’ve been put into a few paragraphs in a single blog post.

  Put altogether, it comes off as chunky and without any clear flow. Microblog formatting is not conductive to story-telling. It’s not a criticism of the writer (I assume they were doing their best within the limits imposed), but of the formatting that breaks the flow that story-telling relies on.

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  • Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The result is scrolling and scrolling to read something that (I feel) could’ve been put into a few paragraphs in a single blog post.

    I was pretty much born into the microblog style (or at least not on the Internet during the popularity of regular blog style), and even then I agree that this sucked to read as a microblog rather than a single, more coherent post. I see someone drop a 🧵 and I immediately sigh internally. I don’t mind a thread post if it’s literally just someone reporting facts, but trying to tell a story (and like, in a exciting or suspenseful way) in threads that are like 2 sentences long sucks. Sometimes I wish people would just post on a blog/article/long post site and then just post ap link to the full text on their microblog.

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    • Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Meh.

      Once again though, this is a meaningless garbage article designed to rage bait people, it’s not something anybody’s going to talk about, we’ve already spent more time arguing about the web page than the content.

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  • Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    IDGAF about the topic the post is discussing, and I don’t need an article. I was more than fine with a quick, scannable version of what’s happening so I can forget all about it. I don’t know what you’re all triggered on. It’s a low-content low-effort highly-viral anti-AI anti-capitalism rage bait garbage post and it deserves no effort on the part of the writer or reader IMO.

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