Mathew IngramNov 15, 2022
I wrote something for CJR about the recent influx of journalists (including me) joining Mastodon, and some of the culture shock that has emerged as a result https://www.cjr.org/analysis/journalists-want-to-recreate-twitter-on-mastodon-mastodon-is-not-into-it.php
Journalists want to re-create Twitter on Mastodon. Mastodon is not into it.

<p>Ever since Elon Musk completed his $45 billion takeover of Twitter last month, there has been a steady stream of users, including a number of journalists, signing up for Mastodon, an open-source alternative. No one controls Mastodon—or rather, everyone controls their own version of it. There are thousands of servers running the software, and each […]</p>

Columbia Journalism Review
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@mathewi @parker

people that others want to read and converse with are the lifeblood of micro blogging. and I want a decentralized media world where the best stuff goes viral without ads, algorithms or gatekeepers. so whatever you need to do (within those confines) to convince people to do your best work here instead of the birdsite is fine by me.

Nov 15, 2022 at 6:55pmWeb