EVHaste7h ago

It’s been a weird couple days; I keep running into this talking point that “journalists won’t use Mastodon unless we incentivize engagement farming”.

Meanwhile I’m having a *great* experience here, because I use it to— I dunno— actually talk to people and form relationships?

I reject the premise that mastodon isn’t useful for reporters. I think it’s more accurate that modern news orgs use social media in purely extractive ways.

You might get more reporters that way, but you won’t like them.

Show threadr-hold

@Haste this is neither an AD platform nor a platform for one way communication to build an audience which is just consuming.
Hence it's uninteresting for 90% of journalist making a living in corporate media.

Let's keep it that way.

Everybody else who wants real connection and two way conversation is welcome, though.

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Show threadEVHaste7h ago

@rhold I will say I’ve noticed an uptick in… not ads, exactly, but buttoned up branded “content” in the popular feed on .social.

I’m curious how long the “no brands” vibe will last.

Some days it’s like… Proton product announcement followed by Tuta product announcement followed by Open Office product announcement. It’s not overwhelming yet but it rhymes with social media as I’ve experienced it elsewhere. Makes me a little nervous.

Show threadr-hold6h ago

@Haste we will see.

I have nothing against artits, local and comminity based or open sources biz tooting their horn here. But aggressive captilastic consumerism produchts probably won't find buisness here. But true: as long as we are niche it's easy to remain pure.

Show threadEVHaste6h ago
@rhold oh I hadn’t even thought to include artists in that observation. I’d be delighted to have a feed full of artists promoting their stuff. 🤩
Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK5h ago

@Haste @rhold those semi commercial FOSS brands (along with some of their devs) have been present on Fedi for years (you can add Nextcloud to the mix as well).

I'm occasionally mildly annoyed by the way some of these brand accounts never seem to reply to anyone and they often go quiet if folk point out bugs/issues in their replies, but they seem to have got better in that respect and at least its software/services that folk on here tend to actually use..

Show threadViktor Nagornyy54m ago

@vfrmedia @Haste @rhold Do you really want marketers to triage or solve issues/bugs on social media? 🥲

Issues/bugs need to be reported in appropriate places, usually project's repo. Sometimes community forum. So actual devs can see those issues and help.

Show threadMad Argon 2h ago
@Haste @rhold there were few lists generated, with consenting accounts, grouped by topic, types of hobby, also science, journalism etc. I wonder if some of them are still alive. There even was server made specifically for indie artists to promote their shops.
Show threadBrick Duck3h ago
@rhold @Haste Since mastodon just shows you people who you follow, I don’t really see how corpos could even gain a foothold. I mean, I’d probably follow a company that posts news or changelogs or security notices but there’s already other channels for that.