Mastodawn

Alex Howard Nov 17, 2022

Interesting piece by @mathewi about the culture clash between journalists accustomed to Twitter & existing Mastodon instances. He reports about 45 servers are blocking people on journa.host, which I was seriously considering joining or shifting towards: https://www.cjr.org/analysis/journalists-want-to-recreate-twitter-on-mastodon-mastodon-is-not-into-it.php What do you think? How should members of the media be approaching participating or reporting on the #fediverse?

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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Bob Stepno Nov 17, 2022

@digiphile @mathewi

Theory1: Journalism companies (TV, newspapers) mostly missed the #cluetrain that online could preserve (1994) or revive (2022?) their presence as a host of #local #community, by being part of the conversation -- not just using a new medium as a pipe to deliver its same old stuff.

Theory2: Communication-&-community-savvy online-natives see "journalists" as vampires lurking on servers to suck in info & search for things to "report" sensationally & for ad-supported profit.

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sabertooth salmon

@BobStep @digiphile @mathewi as a non-journalist, exactly. If I had a penny for every a viral tweet about something I’ve seen that immediately had some media person in the comments asking if they could use the video I’d be rich, and so probably would be the person who did the video. It comes off as vampiric and predatory. Also I’ve seen journalists outright steal tweets and informative threads with no credit for articles.

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Bob Stepno Nov 18, 2022

@Smiledonichyths @digiphile @mathewi

Agreed. Reprehensible behavior and damaging to the reputation of what is left of the profession. So painful to watch the click-addiction, SEO sensationalism, and shallow "social media reporter" performance feeding the 24/7 news clock at understaffed "legacy" media and younger online-only sites.

Meanwhile, only praise to those who manage to do original on-the-scene and investigative reporting and well-crafted clear concise writing in spite of it all.