Dan GillmorMay 3, 2023

NPR is the only major journalism org to have shown a spine in dealing with Musk. So he's threatened to give the NPR username to someone else.

Yet even now -- despite Musk's growing contempt for and acts against journalism -- most media organizations and their employees STILL pour their work and some of their advertising money in to his rancid site.

What will it take for journalists to wake the hell up?

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/02/1173422311/elon-musk-npr-twitter-reassign

Show threadkurt baumgartnerMay 3, 2023
@dangillmor @dangoodin the problem is that this alternative is not terribly mature
Show threadDan Goodin
@kurtisj @dangillmor Under the circumstances, the lack of an equivalent alternative shouldn’t matter. I mean, is there anything that would make decent people leave Twitter? Is audience and engagement more important than anything else? I just don’t get it.
May 3, 2023 at 2:23amWeb
Show threadMichael RothMay 3, 2023

@dangoodin @kurtisj @dangillmor

An alternative which is donations-based would make sense

So u don't have to pay for a blue checks to have ur comments been seen

Hopefully sth like Mastodon will grow quickly (unlikely)

Show threadLZVolkMay 3, 2023
@MichaelRoth @dangoodin @kurtisj @dangillmor I don’t agree. Don’t condemn it prematurely.
Show threadMichael RothMay 4, 2023

@lzvolk @dangoodin @kurtisj @dangillmor

I consider it totally important to counter Twitter with a more humane app

But I think Mastodon is more complicated than Twitter (interface, financing of the app)

Hopefully that will change

Show threadLZVolkMay 3, 2023
@dangoodin @kurtisj @dangillmor Exactly. Same questions I have asked (and listed the predominant responses in a prior Toot in this thread). I don’t consider them valid enough to remain loyal to Twitter. (In my mind, remaining there=loyalty.)
Show threadkurt baumgartnerMay 5, 2023

@dangoodin @dangillmor yeah, i hear you. i sometimes cross-post, but mostly moved over. yeah, i think a lot of people are still there for the audience numbers. it's an established brand.

and, the branding here is pretty lame. no one wants to "toot" or "publish". layout isn't quite as nice, general meme game isn't the same...