Journalism orgs that do decent job of covering social media trends should not have a sharing lineup that looks like this (on @verge). They should be including Mastodon. Hope that will be happening more, soon.

@dangillmor @verge Yep, they must all conform and accept that social media has changed completely for millions of people.

It isn't that difficult, CDN type sharing plugins have had Mastodon for years.

@dangillmor @verge If you’re going to have Elon’s version of the bird site on there you might as well go all in and include Gab, Parler, 4/8Chan, and Truth Social on there as well because there’s really no difference anymore
@dangillmor @verge I’d love to see stats on how many people click those. I’ve found too much friction to do it myself because often they add dumb stuff that I end up deleting anyway.
@dangillmor @verge Need a pressure campaign: “Don’t forget the elephant” or something like that.

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How would the sharing button know what instance you belong to?

@dangillmor @verge Frankly, I'm surprised RSS is there. (One of these things is not like the other.) :)
@dangillmor @verge I’ve got say that I’ve heard a bunch of unsophisticated takes on the VergeCast about mastodon. Surprised that they have been so slow on what is probably the most interesting development in social software in years.