I never realize what responses like this add to the discussion.
do you have any other community platform free from clickbaits? do you need a pat on the back cuz you think you’re immune to clickbaits? what’s the point?
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AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 8 months agoIntentionally inflammatory and misleading headlines on Lemmy? Pshaw. The hell you say.
pop@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
ringwraithfish@startrek.website 8 months ago
Not a Lemmy issue. Click bait unfortunately works to drive views through all social media platforms.
The thing I love is being able to click into the comments first to see the auto-generated summary. Prevents the site from getting my traffic.
Kissaki@feddit.de 8 months ago
The community could make rules on what is acceptable to post or not though. And disallow websites that regularly mislead.
Nilz@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
And it should require copying the title from the article and not allow editorializing it (or only slightly).