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by tester457 514 days ago
No, because reading is more healthy than mindlessly watching short videos. There is only so much content on the front page, it's not a slot machine you can pull for hours like tiktok.
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Give it a few months until somebody rigs an open-source video generation model to generate a "Short" from any frontpage article, and then several "reaction videos" based on the top comments... and maybe a frontend UI that turns the frontpage into an infinite scroll of those Shorts... and bam, HackerReels will be born
Do you truly believe zero brainwashing takes place here?

Out of curiosity, how deeply have you considered the question? And, might that depth not be a function of the norms in the forum?