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I’m failing to see how this is really any different from either Twitter or Reddit, where you would be expected to post some relevant information along with a URL

The risk is that the TLDR could be editorialized. The summary that Lemmy automatically inserts from the website should be enough for this purpose.

One great feature I see no one talking about is that we can write our own text when posting links

Since I'm new here (fleeing from reddit), I'm not sure what precisely you mean in technical terms. How to use that feature? Or is it just that we can add text along the link, unrelated to any syntax?

We should try to make it a habit to write the main point(s) that the article is making to avoid misinformation and ragebait titles. Ideally, a post without any text backing the article would become a red flag that it’s posted by some bot or mass spammer, and would not be floated to the front page.

Yes, I consider this best practice.

Based on some other link posts I've seen on Beehaw, I'd thought this was already the expectation. 🤭

Good thing to point out and intentionally encourage, regardless.

I think that instead, quotes from the article itself should be posted as the text. Leave any further editorializing to a comment.

This will encourage engaging with the actual content of the article, rather than just making some extremely biased, misinformed, or otherwise improper, tldr, and gives a better opportunity for interacting with the editorializing directly via comments.