Mike Masnick ✅This is such a weird article... that talks about "what if social media were not for profit, was decentralized, and federated..." and then only in the ver last paragraph mentions that Mastodon exists, but doesn't say "and it does everything I talked about in this article" https://newint.org/features/2023/02/20/what-if%E2%80%A6-social-media-were-not-profit
Loukas (They/Them) 🏳️⚧️@mmasnick if you look at the list of articles by this reporter you can see they don't really cover information technology. So my explanation would be simple unfamiliarity with the topic being written about.
swansinflight@swansinflight @mmasnick New Internationalist has no money, unfortunately. So you get people trying to fill several roles at once.