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
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@kurtisj @dangoodin @dangillmor The fedi’s immaturity should be an advantage. It’s an opportunity to get in on the ground floor & shape the future. News outlets should have predicted the fall of Twitter by now and they should be competing to gain influence in the #fedi. #NPR is ahead of the game but sadly only b/c twtr pushed them. /cc @DrFriendless @slut
May 3, 2023 at 6:33amWeb
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@slut @DrFriendless @dangillmor @dangoodin @kurtisj It would have been impressive if NPR actually took this initiative by forward thinking as a leader. But no, they were pushed.
Show threadArtBearMay 4, 2023
@koherecoWatchdog @kurtisj @dangoodin @dangillmor @DrFriendless @slut Trying to out Calckey on this account & not sure my quotepoet was also a reply, I just wanted to add:

I ran experiments where I posted on Mastodon & Twitter same posts same time. Through November December January February. I had rules to not deliberately bias results and a score system for interactions, some for a boost, more for a reply, less for a like or poll vote. I adjusted for follower counts.

I started with under 1k Mastodon followers, ended over 2k.
Started Twitter with 1.6k ended 1.3k

Each month Twitter interaction fell but was always hundreds of times less engagement on my scoring for the month. February was 500 times less.

Conclusion: Audience on Twitter is a BS mirage for ordinary sized accounts, you might as well write your thoughts on sheets of your toilet paper.