[praash]

> Hence I'm pro compression culture

I think the problem is that this compression culture is lossy and fragmented.

Summaries serve a purpose similar to thumbnails in an image gallery UI - the full picture is always available behind a click.

Imagine if you could only see them as 128x128 JPEGs at 50% quality - after they've been reposted with "deep fried meme" filters a few times. No links to the source, and the next bite-sized truncation pushed right after. Later someone reposts them upscaled to 8K.

This is exactly what I feel is happening with the written word.

[hiAndrewQuinn]

I don't see that as a problem. You can get much stronger compression if you allow it to be lossy. This naturally flows out of information value decreasing exponentially.