We passed 20,000 followers in this week on #mastodon!
In less than a year, we've accumulated 29% of the followers we got in 9 years of regular posting on the #birdsite, and we get far, far more engagement with our content here.
Thank you.
We will continue to post regularly here because we have found it is a community that values our kind of thoughtful journalism, written by experts for the public.
If you know folks who haven't discovered us yet, we'd really appreciate a boost #Newstodon
Also, a #FollowFriday #Newstodon shoutout to some other great nonprofit news organizations on Mastodon:
@TexasObserver
@ProPublica @thexylom
@themarkup
@thetyee
@gbhnews @insideclimatenews
@mongabay
@damemagazine
And our sister sites around the globe: @TheConversationUK @TheConversationAfrica @theconversationau @TheConversationClimate
@theconversationes
When's the Conversation Canada coming to Mastodon?
@TheConversationUS @TexasObserver @ProPublica @thexylom @thetyee @gbhnews @insideclimatenews @mongabay @damemagazine @TheConversationUK @TheConversationAfrica @theconversationau @TheConversationClimate @theconversationes @themarkup
Thank so much! Followed all and will drop info in a mastodon room on Wire!
Keep up the great work!
@TexasObserver @TheConversationUS @ProPublica @thetyee @gbhnews @insideclimatenews @mongabay @damemagazine @TheConversationUK @TheConversationAfrica @theconversationau @TheConversationClimate @theconversationes @themarkup
Hello there! We're so excited to pilot the What's Working Factbox with the Solutions Journalism Network this week!
See it in action: https://www.thexylom.com/post/a-journey-through-my-microbiome-an-immigrant-s-perspective-on-a-changing-gut
@TexasObserver @ProPublica @thetyee @gbhnews @insideclimatenews @mongabay @damemagazine @TheConversationUK @TheConversationAfrica @theconversationau @TheConversationClimate @theconversationes @themarkup
Also building on @TheConversationUS's statistics, we've accumulated over 90% of the followers we got in five-plus years of regular posting on Twitter!
Thank you for being with us through this journey!
Is anyone allowed to engage there without paying? The last couple times I peeked in, it was only blue check marks.
Boosted! I enjoy seeing your content in my feed.
This is a worthwhile organization.
And #Mastodon is a place where journalists can build real, organic, lasting connections unmediated by corporate agendas or interference.
" . . . we will continue to post here regularly" - sounds like "we post on xitter, but we also post here"
Please, lots of times I get it wrong, tell me I got this wrong.
Xitter is not a social media site anymore.
It is a weapon, and the sight, the stock, trigger, of that weapon are hidden to casual observers by the flowers of sane people decorating it, as if it were not an array of howitzers being brought to bear at the American Democracy.
https://www.thewrap.com/elon-musk-wikipedia-twitter-turkey-censorship/
Without even counting the racists platformed, Musk's military protection of the Russian Fleet blockading Ukrainian wheat exports ends all doubt about the evil of the platform.
"Xitter is no a social media site anymore."
It stopped being that no later than when Musk purchased it.
It is now an invaluable disinformation propaganda disseminator for autocrats and fascists.
@staidwinnow @TheConversationUS
Erdogan the dictator, being swept from office because controlling all the press wasnt enough when the crappy cheap buildings Erdogan insisted on, fell down killing Turks.
But Elon prevented the democratic opposition from ANY COMMENTS when Erdogan spread Deep Fake Videos of the democratic opposition chanting terrorist slogans.
Its not just thug nazis passing notes, its a weapon aimed at democracy, home and abroad.
https://www.newsweek.com/turkey-election-elon-musk-accused-censoring-erdogan-critics-twitter-1800134
A fascist helping an autocrat friend out.
As Alex Wagner (MSNBC) aptly described, Musk is in fact a "Free speech occasionalist". 🎯
Quite so, 'pretty flowers' in the form of some smart, 'woke', non-#TrumpVirus believers, advocates for #truth, etc, are still 'there', in relatively undisturbed enclaves of longtime follwers/followees...
Increasing likelihood of trolls reacting to public posts, and threats of dis-allowing blocking.
Plus the #MuskVirus - endorsed hate and #disinformation.
Hey... #IIWII
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