@drewharwell Most of these accounts are not active. Of the 30 accounts you list, only 14 have posted at all within the last week:

@geoffreyfowler
@JosephMenn
@jeremybmerrill
@markseibel
@Shira
@tatumhunter
@taylorlorenz
@willoremus
@pbump
@perrybacon
@andrewvandam
@databae
@teddyamen
@gbrockell

...and only a small few are truly "on Mastodon."

It's great that WP journalists are doing something with Mastodon, but so far it is not many and not much.