Mathew IngramNov 9, 2022
Other stated reasons for banning journa.host include complaints about its members being "surveillance capitalists," or "internet sleths who won't use reporting tools but will cry for legal action," or "mainstream propagandists"
Show threadAaronNov 9, 2022

@mathewi The implications of this drama are interesting. Like, does it mean that journalists, once onboarded, are incentivized to move into an instance that is related to a community/ interest area they write about?

Does it mean that some instances can pressure others into different moderation decisions?

The people that have been here for a while have probably dealt with these questions before, but I'm finding it interesting to think about.

Show threadMathew IngramNov 9, 2022
@00Aaron Agreed -- very interesting questions! I think I joined journa.host not so much because I wanted to be among other journalists, but because I hoped it would reassure people about my credentials in some way? I'm not even sure, to be honest
Show threadAaron

@mathewi it's all very new to to many of us, so it makes sense why people would want to join up with their "crew" first, to feel things out.

I did see a discussion about the infosec.exchange server have an account that wanted to create a text scraper across instances for searchability, which I think raised similar concerns from other instances (but moreso about privacy)

The anthropology of all of this will be very interesting in upcoming weeks, I'm sure

Nov 9, 2022 at 6:53pmWeb