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 threadDrFriendless 🇵🇸May 3, 2023
@kurtisj @dangillmor @dangoodin The problem is that nobody wants to be part of an alternative vanity project for brands and celebrities. If maturity makes mastodon as awful as Twitter, why have it?
Show threadDan GoodinMay 3, 2023
@DrFriendless @kurtisj @dangillmor Isn’t the bigger problem that people aren’t willing sacrifice something they like in order to defend fundamental principles?
Show thread1st Unoriginal Thot May 3, 2023
@dangoodin @DrFriendless @kurtisj @dangillmor I mean, make Mastodon fun and I am sure people will flock over.
Show threadDan GoodinMay 3, 2023
@slut @DrFriendless @kurtisj @dangillmor Are you saying that people, in particular journalists whose very avocation is threatened by the Twitter menace, should not follow a moral imperative to leave unless or until there's a place they like as much as Twitter?
Show threadLZVolk
@dangoodin @slut @DrFriendless @kurtisj @dangillmor Again. That is a common response for staying on Twitter, even scientists. Nor, in my opinion, is it a valid justification and substitution for loyalty to the site. Loyalty to Twitter is allegiance to Musk.
May 3, 2023 at 2:48pmWeb