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Dan Gillmor Nov 19, 2023

I am a huge fan of Margaret Sullivan's work, and this piece about Musk is spot on -- except that she almost completely undermines her argument by continuing to pour her work into the deadbird site.

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*The* Paul Brown Nov 19, 2023

@dangillmor

But this is so common in the content of The Guardian -- and other supposedly progressive news outlets.

They warn of the dangers of of social media platforms controlled by magalomaniacal oligarchs, but still feed it with content. They talk of how Facebook influences elections and promotes hate in exchange for $$$, but when Threads came out, they couldn't promote it enough;

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@ NovaNaturalist HAS ALSO MOVED Nov 19, 2023

@Bro666 @dangillmor not only couldn't they promote it enough, they worked very hard to rubbish the fediverse.

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*The* Paul Brown Nov 19, 2023

@NovaNaturalist @dangillmor

Right!

"Ooooh! Having to choose an instance makes it impossibly complicated!"

What a bunch of corporate bootlicking wankers, I tell you.

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@Bro666 @dangillmor Guardian journalists: "We don't like Twitter because its set up to promote hatred."

Also Guardian journalists: "We don't like Mastodon because its not *exactly* the same as Twitter"