Mastodawn

Is #mastodon becoming an echo chamber? This post from @carnage4life has me questioning our community. The Mastodon team is finally getting some traction, the product improvements are increasing, The #UX is improving, yet people posting on multiple platforms are making comments like this. It's confusing.

I *know* people here don't want this to be a classic social media-clone but we'd *like* journalists to be here right? They aren't coming with examples like this!

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mormund 6d ago

@scottjenson @carnage4life Not sure why a journalist would be disappointend that people hate "AI".
Generally taking engangement as a KPI for journalism is understandable for obvious economical reasons. But I don't want to be engaged by journalism. I want be informed and often enough also left alone and look at kittens and nerdy projects instead.

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Scott Jenson 6d ago

@mormund And you have every right to do that. But do that with filtering/blocking/hashtags. Don't do it by chasing away people that want to be part of the community. "Gatekeeping" is not a good look for an "open social" network.

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mormund

@scottjenson totally with you. I apologize if I came across like that, I think this place could do lot more to welcome people, especially from marginalized groups. But I think we shouldn't chase the content machinery here either