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Dan Gillmor Dec 27, 2022

Big Journalism is still largely unwilling to call things what they are. Today's example is the Washington Post's use of "vaccine hesitancy" to describe a movement that is based on rejecting science and evidence in favor of dangerous and, increasingly, politically motivated lies.

The people who reject vaccines are attacking their communities. They spread disease and death. We should recognize this, and say it out loud.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/12/26/vaccine-hesitancy-measles-chickenpox-polio-flu/

Growing vaccine hesitancy fuels measles, chickenpox resurgence in U.S.

An Ohio measles outbreak among unvaccinated children comes at a time of heightened concern about the public health consequences of anti-vaccine sentiment.

The Washington Post

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Virtue signal 💉💉💉🇺🇸 🇺🇦Dec 27, 2022

@dangillmor

And a prime example of why QTs are valuable... if this article were a WaPo tweet.

So we can essentially QT articles on regular websites (what you see here), just not toots on fedi.

I even see ppl here doing this with Twitter content.

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Paul Chambers🚧Dec 27, 2022

@tasket @dangillmor

Toot previews show up when I link a toot in a reply or in a new toot. Could be better but it gives the gist, esp if there is an image attached to a toot

Sometimes it takes a bit to show up after it is published

I believe the instance you're on has link previews set to process within 2 minutes in Sidekiq due to its servers' large volume of tasks. Until Sidekiq processes, it will appear as a text url up to a few minutes, some fail in sidekiq, though. It's your admins setup

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Virtue signal 💉💉💉🇺🇸 🇺🇦Dec 27, 2022

@paul @dangillmor

That just shows the person's name and avatar, not the content.

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Paul Chambers🚧Dec 27, 2022

@tasket @dangillmor
That's actually the content. His avatar is himself.

Point I was trying to make, is your server instance, not Mastodon or Fedi, is preventing the toot cards from appearing, either because they are too busy processing other things in sidekiq or have preview cards downgraded. Your instance admin, who happens to be the dev of Mastodon, is strongly against things going viral, incl. by search. That may play into why you aren't seeing preview cards. Your instance admin settings.

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Paul Chambers🚧

@tasket @dangillmor
2/ I want to add, I'm not disagreeing with the premise of your original message about QT's or trolling you. Just adding that some of us experience Mastodon and even the fedi as a whole, different than others, based on the settings of the fedi or Mastodon instance we happen to hang our shingle.