Anil@taylorlorenz the link previews thing is complicated because retrieving the data for them is decentralized, meaning each instance (and sometimes, each *app*!) is hitting the website for the preview info. It’s often been omitted because it can knock small websites offline just dealing with serving previews when a popular user shares a link.
Jay Rosen@anildash I agree with Taylor about quote posts. Basic tool of press criticism for me.
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@jayrosen_nyu @anildash How about just replying to a post. Like this? I like the fact that Mastodon promotes conversation not amplification.
Adam A@leo @jayrosen_nyu @anildash ^ this... The point of mastodon isn't for things to go viral. Almost the opposite, much more about a few meaningful connections than lots of meaningless ones
Mel Campbell@adamaronoff @leo @jayrosen_nyu @anildash I’m a journalist and I think it’s a massive mistake to treat Mastodon as a straight swap for Twitter and to demand Mastodon incorporate all Twitter’s affordances so it can be used in the same way.
I am enjoying the challenge of talking about my work in a different way than before. I have recognised my impulse to quote is an impulse to take control of a discussion and shape it to my own ends, and how defensive that impulse often is.
I’m also recognising how much I had invested in the idea of being an opinion leader whose voice is passively listened to.
But I am enjoying having more back-and-forth conversations here. I feel less pressure to be performative and I don’t think Mastodon is a self-promotional platform
@incrediblemelk @leo @jayrosen_nyu @anildash exactly...quote tweeting has places where it's helpful, but the majority of the time, it encourages bad/toxic/performative behavior - I can't remember the last time I QT someone and it wasn't to try and dunk on them. This conversation would be impossible to have on twitter - beyond the character limit, it would be infested with people trying to 'score internet points' with hot takes and QTs
@adamaronoff @leo @jayrosen_nyu @anildash also, journalism as a discipline could stand to be much more reflective about the often very transactional way it uses other people’s ideas.
Some problematic practices that journalism has just got used to include inviting people to the platform (print media, radio, TV, online), to share their professional knowledge or their personal and even traumatic stories as “content”, but not to take much care with how the journalist’s own audience then respond to the interviewees or guests or contributors.
To journalists (and to other ‘professional’ media users eg comedians, politicians, celebrities – people who use the platform self-promotionally), being the quoted person is a net positive because you’re showing your relevance and impact. So they assume that anyone will be happy to be quoted. I really don’t think they feel a ‘dunk’ the same way as a non-professional who hasn’t made that devil’s bargain with social media
@incrediblemelk @leo @jayrosen_nyu @anildash that makes a lot of sense, though the ratio of media users to non-media users is pretty lopsided. But the cool thing about Mastodon is that it's a flexible system, and i'm already seeing news/journalist-specifics instances coming online. It's not hard to envision a future where there is a customized version more tailored for journalist, and then either major publications or some sort of consortium of them, running an instance just for journalist.