Nell GreenfieldboyceNPR has decided to quit Twitter
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169269161/npr-leaves-twitter-government-funded-media-label
Lew Riley@nellgreenfieldboyce How about posting here?
James@lewriley @nellgreenfieldboyce I’d love to see it. So many great journalists have already made the move, they’d be a very welcome addition.
Marcy@Pinut @nellgreenfieldboyce Yes, but they haven't posted for a very very long time. Hoping they'll return to active engagement.
Marcelo MagallonGood for NPR!
> [if the conditions were to change] Lansing says the network will not immediately return to the platform.
That part is a pity, though.
Journalists in general seem reluctant to understand that Twitter cannot be trusted anymore, not as a means of communication and not as a source of information. It seems to be the sunken cost fallacy: they have invested so much in building a follower base there, and they seem convinced that they are not able to do it again.
Brownian_motion@nellgreenfieldboyce Have they got you writing the guide for moving to the #fediverse yet?
teledyn 𓂀I sent this to NPR. No illusions they'll run with it, but I felt obliged
>… the whole-hearted presence of folks like NPR (or BBC) moving en mass to the Fediverse would not only be good for the media ecology, good for the planet and help lead our audiences to a healthier, safer, inclusive online society, but it might actually shake some sense into these megalomaniac billionaires and get them to cooperate with humanity instead of ruthlessly exploiting them.
Cassandra Good@nellgreenfieldboyce What can we as listeners do to help convince NPR to move to the Fediverse?
ToledoZapper@nellgreenfieldboyce And so I quit Twitter.
Peter@nellgreenfieldboyce “ @NPR is instituting a "two-week grace period" so the staff who run the Twitter accounts can revise their social-media strategies. “
Quitting would mean deactivating their account. They didn’t quit.
Quitting would mean deactivating their account. They didn’t quit.
RudyDoesBooks@nellgreenfieldboyce I'm glad you're here on Mastodon. Can you bring more colleagues over?
John🥛@nellgreenfieldboyce come on over to Mastodon...so much better here anyways. #npr