This isn’t Reddit. What does your decade old Reddit account have to do with lemmy?
And there’s a difference between avid reader of lemmy posts than driving people to read your blog.
If an article is paywalled, you can generally ask OP to post the content so that it can be read. And here’s the thing, the poster of news doesn’t have control about what is written in the news article. But you have control over the content on your blog.
So why are you posting a link instead of the actual content? It’s because you’re shamelessly promoting your blog. It’s a different story if a third party ORGANICALLY finds your blog and finds it share worthy, but this isn’t that.