I want to escape Twitter, but that has turned out to be harder than I thought. Mainly because of 213K followers. It took more than 8 years to achieve that.
But Mastodon has potential. I'm hoping it will be my new home.
My profile is now updated with more personal details. I don't want to do #factchecking or #debunking just via my website. Feel free to ask/tag me especially in case you see an iffy picture or video.
Note that my website doesn't have ads or tracking. https://hoaxeye.com/
You can follow major news on the #fediverse without Elon's dead birb cite at https://press.coop/directory
Not all journalism relies on T(w)itter btw. Not all journalists*.
* The irony of the 'copy that's major news is a placeholder btw 😉
As a journalist I have grown my audience here on Mastodon twice as large as I ever did on the bird cite in 1/2 the time I put into Twitter. Twitter is a cesspool now. All the things the right complained about they have reshaped into their own version of what they were complaining about. This is not a sustainable situation over there btw.
Most of the numbers to views vs. the 🔎 'trending' numbers don't even HAVE numbers associated with the topics chosen. The steady decline of what use to be a useful public OPENWEB website that HAD a public utility BECAUSE it was OPEN has now been RATELIMITED to ONE TWEET. NO REPLIES. It USE to be an open web site that was listed and searchable via web crawlers now has declined so much that the desperation to monetize the latest MLM scheme is getting to desperation levels of cringe.
This is a fascinating #MBA101 and #PR101 level of study though to continue to document. 🔎👀👀🔍🧐🔮
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JJ Peterson
@infosec_jcp 🐈🃏 done differently