@dangillmor Imagine if thousands of doctors were hanging out on sites selling shark fin soup as a cancer remedy, or leeching to cure depression in children. Even CBS News would probably raise an eyebrow at that. But journalists using a social media product willfully misusing its power and propagating heinous people, ideas and behavior? Only you and a handful of others seem to care enough to shame them over it. We need a much bigger crowd of shamers.

@shoq Shaming doesn't help and may be tactically counterproductive, I fear. I've tried to show that journalists (and others of better ethical character than deadbird's owner) could take their audiences and conversations to better places, but inertia is Musk's most important advantage.

@dangillmor @shoq I'm thinking what would need to serve their interests to leave? And imagine either they need to drive traffic to their publications, and that doesn't happen sufficiently here, or they can efficiently share and gather info there in a way that doesn't happen here or elsewhere. I still use nitter as the bird is still unfortly the most efficient way for me to gather news as it happens along with insight & snark from a handful of people. I've locked my bird account & won't go back.

@bok_bok_ba_gok @dangillmor That is precisely the right kind of question. I think a number of things can happen here that cannot happen there, and lure or capture many of them. I hope to launch at least one of them soon, as Firefish is now approaching mainstream stability.

@shoq @dangillmor Cool! As someone with RSIs who depends on keyboard alternatives, I've found the Masto interface challenging - I'm trying out Elk now & hoping more innovations will come to make the Fediverse easy for newbies.