Mastodawn

Sheril Kirshenbaum Nov 7, 2022

In recent years, we became too comfortable letting #Twitter define journalism & media. Algorithms often dictated the narratives we collectively paid attention to.

Absurd trends were covered by news outlets & ballooned into major stories while we missed so much real substance. And the quick takes of uninformed politicians & bad actors were forced upon anyone participating in the network.

It was bad for democracy. The #Mastodon model makes me hopeful we can do better. #twittermigration

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Mrgareth

@Sheril agree, though it’s not just Twitter tbf, but that was certainly the saddest instance of this algorithm tyranny.

Seeing your feed entirely dictated by the outcomes of your last click, and watching extremists get rewarded for dog-whistling, was depressing.

So many of our political problems today are driven by the fact that moderate, sensible views simply aren’t interesting to AI.

Don’t understand yet how this place works, but a de-centralised model is refreshing! 🙂