Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 05/10/2026More and more, everything sounds like some version of ad copy. And if it doesn’t, people are expected to scroll past. I don’t love what we’re being pushed to become accustomed to. 4343
Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Ironically a lot of this writing is hyper verbose and wayyy too long. Reminds me of those old stories you’d read sometimes where you could 100% tell that the writer had been paid by the word. Just words on words for the sake of more words. 4352
John @john4.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Instant skip for me when scrolling my news feed. Headlines that are a narrative run-on sentence 000
Flying Circuits @flyingcircuits.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I've been noticing this too, it's quickly becoming one of my tells that an article is slop. Extremely annoying to read as each paragraph is a rehash of the previous one, like watching one of those old discovery channel shows where they explain everything (again!) after each commercial break 🙄 020
Alex L @bustedsneakers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026the mythology of dickens creaks to life once more it's so weird and so resonant how much copyright on his pirated books loops to today and the data that fed into the current problems 000
Josh @quietseeker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The main thing I learned from decades of message board posting is that brevity is essential. Say what's important and move on. 000
