opadiddiNov 20, 2022
Sheril Kirshenbaum

“I think we [journalists] got lazy as a field, and we let Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and, god help us, Elon Musk and their staff decide all these major journalistic questions.”

I couldn’t agree more with journalist @adamdavidson in this thoughtful and reflective Q&A about joining #Mastodon

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

Mastodon’s Moment – The Markup

A conversation with Adam Davidson

Nov 20, 2022 at 6:26amMetatext
Show threadMark CrowleyNov 20, 2022
@Sheril @adamdavidson this is very true, how much tv and paper coverage the past 10 years has beeb reacting to trends on twitter? If the medium is the message, then whats the algorithm that controls the medium. Any medium will have these effects, but the AI enabled streams like twitter, facebook, google take out so much of the legwork snd validation and hide it. your left reporting on the results of a model. less filtering, more research.
Show threadMartin Vermeer FCDNov 20, 2022
@Sheril @adamdavidson Now we will have to see if journa.host represents only journalists "moving" from Twitter to Mastodon, or them *migrating* there. How will they handle both-sidesing, and granting undeserved credibility to all sorts of reality denial under the 'just reporting' excuse.
Show threadSudhirNov 20, 2022
@Sheril @adamdavidson 👍👏😇
Show threadblack_wolfNov 20, 2022
@Sheril @adamdavidson You forgot to mention Rupert Murdoch.
Show threadannaravenNov 20, 2022

@Sheril @adamdavidson I really liked this quote in the article: "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. "

Making active choices is exactly what mastodon forces us all to do. I like that about it. #Intentionality is a good thing, I think.

Show threadWuMing2Nov 20, 2022
@Sheril it’s all about marketing budget and tam. Without audience a journalist doesn’t have a job. Just a passion.
Show threadopadiddiNov 20, 2022
@Sheril @adamdavidson
how to make a clean tw exit without leaving too much residual data
#neuhier
Show threadTomNov 20, 2022

@Sheril @adamdavidson

Once we understand that #mastodon is not set up - like #twitter - for any kind of “Oh my god, everybody’s talking about this one post" but rather to foster #conversations, the comparisons between twitter and mastodon will vanish...

Show threadSriram "sri" Ramkrishna - 😼Nov 20, 2022
@Sheril @adamdavidson certainly the search for clicks and hot takes is one factor but also needing chaos actors to distill attention to your platform .. just ugh.
Show threadJDHeymanNov 28, 2022
@Sheril @adamdavidson Absolutely. And of course journalists collaborated in this, because the platforms uniquely exploit our vulnerabilities