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Could there be a group for in-depth articles, like TrueReddit?
I know there's ~news, but I'm talking a place that specifically focuses on long, insightful articles rather than recent events. Since tildes wants to emphasize depth, I think it would be a good fit.
I see there aren't a whole lot of groups at the moment, so perhaps this would be something to consider further down the line.
I agree. The Twitter hashtag/shorthand is “longreads”, at least where I go. ~news.longreads is a great idea when we’re ready for sub-groups.
I feel like once tags become filterable we can start to use them for things like this. Maybe add something like an
indepthtag to long articles.That'd at least avoid the issue of a ~news.longreads and a ~tech.longreads and if we open the doors to new groups someday and end up particularly fragmented, ~comp.issues.privacy.verbose vs ~tech.talk.privacy.truetildes vs ~politics.computers.privacy.bigarticles etc.
What about the other way around? If we instead have a ~news.bytesized and therefore make insightful articles the norm?
It’s a great ideal but I can’t imagine it happening in practice.
I’d be glad to vote in, and behave in that manner. I’m not sure it’ll make a difference, though.
Could be interesting to add a .bytesized flag to every group and use a bot to generate the comment from the long form discussion in the main group. Maybe just automate the top level comments or something along those lines?
I think they really fill different roles. If you want the latest news, it doesn't make sense to read longform articles because there's a lot to cover. Quality and insightfulness aren't determined by length either
I would argue for specific tags instead: "deep", or "long", for example, coupled with "old" and maybe a year, "2016". That way people won't get confused about which group to post in and avoid groups becoming graveyards due to infrequent posts.
I'd like something akin to r/InDepthStories or r/InterestingArticle on reddit, or like /reads was on imzy.
Somewhere to post/read good investigative journalism, feature stories etc. Some writing, investigations, polemics etc hold up to the test of time, so don't fit in a "current affairs" format, but deserve to be seen. In Praise Of Idleness from 1932 springs too mind. It's not news, it's not philosophy, it's a good read though.
In the meantime, if any others come to mind, feel free to share them here with me/us :)