I have zero patience for “no change” traditionalists in this space. the one thing standing between us and a whole lotta hurt is people practicing fact checking, professional thoughtfulness, and journalistic rigor at scale and everywhere.

yes we need to be able to text search public posts, quote toot, and increase ease for users. sorry there is no room for viewing fedi as your private hobby, the world needs fedi to work well for journalists and organizers

@seachanger

When it becomes possible to type in like, 'Kherson' or 'tornado', and search to see what others are posting about it, in real time and in chronological order

(and, conversely, post about emergencies ourselves)

journalists will 100% flock here.

Including global search as a default is too much of a security risk for marginalized groups, so it has to be opt-in. But journalists need this.

@seachanger

The idea that journalists are unambiguous truth tellers or fact checkers is dead.

@seachanger

Have you seen Twitter, where all the journalists are? It's a cesspool of misinformation. An absence of journalists is not the problem.

But also, who vets the specific journalists? Due to platform biases, it seems there are as many journalists spreading that misinfo as there are ones who care about the integrity of their field.

@seachanger

Good news: @dangillmor is here now, but obviously we'd like more.

@seachanger

I follow quite a few of them but I don't see a lot of their journo posts it seems. Others are doing the work. Have they all gone back to Elon's hell? Or on to Zuck's? Or are they being told not to post for themselves but let their editors do it for them?

@seachanger I agree 100% that we need properly trained journalists with all the qualifications you list. There are some here, the vast majority of those posting elsewhere don't even begin to satisfy the qualifications you mention. Most report, uncritically, whatever is said as if fascists have a valid point of view, or as if trans people's existence is in question.

Main stream traditional media has failed us. For justice, there is Just Us!

@seachanger
@randy

well, they are all on their way to https://fedi.camp –
wish you could be there.
But it does not matter which software to use, I guess mastodon which has no Client-To-Server-support is not the best option for journalists who somehow like standards.
And so after the boat for a Climate Refugee story sank, I am doing @redaktor a full featured Open Source ActivityPub _conformant_ fedi software with best journalistic practices which can be extended by vocabularies like IPTC, NYT, EBU etc. I guess, this is a key to attract more :)

@seachanger Ultimately I agree with this whole heartedly but I think the previous attempts have really highlighted the fact that the issue is not with Mastodon or the fediverse more broadly, but with journalists themselves. It seems that they are overly comfortable acting as an in group that expects to be acquiesced to in exchange for a position on their platform. If the field weren't obsessed with profit motivation as the only acceptable reason to do anything they would get along just fine here. And many journalists do.

I think this is best exemplified by the unwillingness to simply switch to or develop a fediverse microblogging platform that has the features they "require".