Jeff JarvisNov 25, 2022
With Twitter's collapse, funders should start helping build up federated discourse: supporting development of better security, of moderation aids, of proposals for affordances welcoming to Black Twitter and other communities. Stop thinking top down. Start thinking emergent.
Stop thinking about how to help newspapers. Start thinking about how to help communities and culture speaking for themselves. This is a place to start.
Show threadBert Latamore
@jeffjarvis I agree with most of this except your suggestion that we stop worrying about funding newspapers. Uncreated reporting -- e.g. Twitter, Facebook, et. Al. -- is not a replacement for the curated newspaper that focuses on accurate reporting of facts and of what actually happened. It isn't perfect -- nothing done by humans is -- but it is vastly better than social media where you never know if what you are reading is true or a blatant lie and too much of the "news" is really propaganda.
Nov 25, 2022 at 4:53pmTusky
Show threadStrypeyNov 25, 2022

@BertL I agree with you about funding media organizations that employ journalists, but...

> you never know if what you are reading is true or a blatant lie and too much of the "news" is really propaganda.

... is just as accurate of most of them as it is of social media. For example, have a look through all the stories here about Mastodon and the fediverse from edited publications:

https://pad.disroot.org/p/fediverse-on-the-web

You've been here long enough to recognize that most of them are garbage.

@jeffjarvis

Disroot pads

Show threadJeff JarvisNov 25, 2022
@BertL I didn't say to stop funding but corporate newspapers should be finding their own paths to sustainability, long since. And there's something else and new to support and encourage here.