modern websites are a pain to navigate with popups, paywall, ads, heavy tracking that slows down navigation, autoplaying video ads etc
modern journalism = let's just report whatever the person or company says without fact checking, contextualizing or taking a stance. I believe this is done because it takes less effort and because it makes sure that the news org doesn't anger any of the persons/organizations it has tides with (for ads or direct funding)

The comments solve both problems, as lemmy is ad- and tracking-free and the people in the comments are mostly real people usually without any vested interests in the things they're discussing.

So OBVIOUSLY I only read the comments. I'll get the content of the article indirectly as it's being discussed.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 13 points 10 months ago

Also you can use the comments to determine if the article is even worth reading so you don't accidentally give a click to some hack journalism.

[–] silverdraco@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

This is absolutely true. I get more information and understanding from the discussion in the comments than I do the article. Using other platforms I want to read what people are discussing about the article than the article itself. Brings more depth to the conversation and the article.

[–] drawerair@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

When I see a lot of 💩 on the site, I use Firefox's reader mode.

archive.md, 12ft.io or the "Bypass paywalls clean" extension for paywalls

I have Ublock origin to block the tracking.