Dan GillmorA reminder that there is NOTHING Musk can do that will prompt journalists to stop supporting his business.
Disgusting on his part, as usual.
But disgraceful on their part.
Posted this again on the deadbird site:
Standing offer for journalists: I'll help you get set up on Mastodon and will help you bring your Twitter audience along (and find new followers and rich engagement there). All I ask is that you migrate -- over time, not instantly -- your social media activity there.
Thomas@dangillmor I hope many take you up on your offer. To say it's a cesspool over there is a vast understatement.
(P. S. - boosted here, and reposted there)
ᴚ uɐᗡ@trz @dangillmor so many are in active denial
"it's not that bad if you stand on your head and hold your breath when you tweet"
I don't get it.
@dannotdaniel @dangillmor If journos are worried about losing thousands of followers, I can understand that.
But they have to think about how many actually see their posts anymore? Shadow bans, random/bogus post deletions, bogus suspensions, priority given to blue check/premium posts and comments (meaning you see negative/troll-ish comments first in many cases).
Maybe some of those followers aren't even active anymore but have dormant accounts to "keep the username."
I wonder if some journos checked their engagement numbers, say year-over-year, or even 6 months ago to today... wonder what they'd find.
But they have to think about how many actually see their posts anymore? Shadow bans, random/bogus post deletions, bogus suspensions, priority given to blue check/premium posts and comments (meaning you see negative/troll-ish comments first in many cases).
Maybe some of those followers aren't even active anymore but have dormant accounts to "keep the username."
I wonder if some journos checked their engagement numbers, say year-over-year, or even 6 months ago to today... wonder what they'd find.
@infosec_jcp 🐈🃏 done differently@trz @dannotdaniel @dangillmor
I'll save you some time based on my analysis in a word:
Decline, 💯🙅♂️💥
Leisureguy@dannotdaniel @trz @dangillmor
It seems like saying, "I'm happy to live in a Nazi/racist neighborhood because I refuse to look at what they are doing."
Doctor😷G 🇵🇹🇺🇸@trz @dangillmor A veritable Cesspool of Deplorables
william.maggoswe should put together an official Fedi Welcoming Committee. help start servers. talk them through stuff. did anything like that exist in the days of the early web?
Dragon-sided Dbut what got most people from just using AOL to browsing the web? I can't remember.
so mozilla.social and more #nsfw posts?
Paul Chambers🚧@wjmaggos @dragonsidedd @dangillmor
Major killer was DSL. You no longer needed AOL to log into the internet. You were always on
It took a couple years but by 2000 people were using the open internet through various browsers. People learned they didn't need a spoonfed corporate service to access the content. MSN died around the same time DSL was available~ same with Prodigy/Juno. Then, cable came
Here's hoping that happens with the fediverse versions of corp. social media and other platforms
@paul @wjmaggos @dangillmor Yeah thinking on it now... you're right, it was always-on DSL/cable that killed AOL.
AOL/CompuServe were about "getting online". Suddenly we (at least, our household PCs) were *always* online. No gate, no gatekeeper.
A History of AOL, as Told in Its Own Old Press Releases
Twenty-five years ago today, a company named Quantum Computer Services rose from the ashes of a failed startup called Control Video Corporation. It launched a dial-up online service for the Commodore 64 which eventually spread to Macs and PCs--one that became a lot better known after it was renamed
@wjmaggos @dragonsidedd @dangillmor
I was a Usenet holdout. Lol
The Time Warner merge killed everything it touched.
They had all the tech but screwed the migration from being a telecom dialup service to portal/service of all things.
Also, those numbers seem low until you consider each dialup subscriber had multiple family members users. At its peak, nearly half the US population used it to get on the internet
@paul @wjmaggos @dangillmor
> Usenet
Sometimes I uuencode my pr0n, just for old times' sake
Grassroots JoeI put this step-by-step guide to try and help - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1czntx6cRqDzqBGa6fDhLvZZaQaQvDHXN9YxHsuLasyI/present?usp=sharing
Stefan Bohacek@dangillmor I know Mastodon is all the rage, I even host my own server. But is it possible that some folks who might have soured on Mastodon would be willing to give other fediverse platforms a chance?
The Media & Democracy ProjectPerhaps they would be interested in signing the X-last pledge?
https://www.xlast.org/home#pledge
Evan Prodromou
Martin Vermeer FCD@evan @dangillmor Yep, he insists on being a cartoon villain.
Takaya@dangillmor Jesus, hard to think of a list of shittier people…
@dangillmor this is the douchebag singularity
@dangillmor Journalists are the Republicans of journalism.
SpockoI listened to the whole thing.
I have to remind myself that when Elon Musk is asked questions he is NOT under oath. Neither was Alex Jones. No one is compelling them to tell the truth. They both spun their stories faster than a top.
#ElonMusk #AlexJones
Joe Beam@dangillmor
I have a very low tolerance for anyone still on Twitter(X).
I have a very low tolerance for anyone still on Twitter(X).
AluminumRooster@dangillmor when I used to go there it was just to follow journalists whom I thought had integrity. Little did I know.
Untrustedlife@dangillmor @dangillmor let’s see we have child murder denial guy, human trafficker guy, and hello fellow kids guy. And billionaire babyman guy.
Scum of the earth.
Scum of the earth.
Tim Chuma@dangillmor If no drama then they have no clicks
Steve Williams@dangillmor
The Four Coarsemen of the Adpocalypse
The Four Coarsemen of the Adpocalypse
My Head’s Exploding 🤯 💥@dangillmor That they don’t care, or see the cesspool they’re swirling in within the #deadbirdsite has them blindly marching into #facsism and #authoritarianism. ☠️
David H. McCoyJournalism is not the problem. Go more fundamental.
This is bigotry, the well from which all other acts flow.
Journalist are just as bigoted as everyone else.