Kathy E. Gill 🇺🇦

There are many reasons that this place isn't like the BirdSite.

@mathewi outlines some of them for CJR.

A very big cultural difference: the expectation of a semi-public environment: don't mine posts here. Don't quote posts without permission.

I've read about sociologists getting into trouble for the same reason.

Without an algorithm to feed timelines, I do not see how Mastodon as a service can replace HellScape for breaking news.

h/t @jonpinnock

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
Nov 18, 2022 at 9:09amWeb
Show threadCoach Pāṇini ®Nov 18, 2022
@jonpinnock @mathewi @kegill the assumption that journalists *need* the algorithm to do their job is kind of dismaying
Show threadJonathan PinnockNov 18, 2022
@kegill @mathewi Thanks for the h/t, but it wasn't me!
Show threadRobinNov 19, 2022
@kegill but now all those who want "free speech" will actually understand what it is: the right to speech, not to reach.
Show threadBeth FitzGibbonNov 18, 2022
@kegill @mathewi @jonpinnock This is fascinating both as a statement re: bias reported as fact & allowing content creators to not be used as someone else's source of content.