Mastodawn

Jay Rosen Nov 19, 2022

"What I’m finding most satisfying about Mastodon, and I’m seeing a lot of other journalists feel this, is that it actually forces you to ask and confront some of these questions and to make active choices. Even if Mastodon were to remain Twitter’s very tiny stepbrother, I would still like to be part of a Mastodon journalist community because I think we got lazy as a field, and we let Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and, god help us, Elon Musk decide..."

—@adamdavidson

https://themarkup.org/newsletter/hello-world/mastodons-moment

Mastodon’s Moment – The Markup

A conversation with Adam Davidson

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Shannon

@jayrosen_nyu @adamdavidson YES! Exactly this. Too much reporting on Twitter. And really too much reporting on these people. Like so much of that just boosts their persona and they scam us all. Apparently Elon's credentials are all false. Look at the FTX guy. Reporters need to look more critically at all these things or we will end up with people like Musk moulding the world in the way they want.