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.
@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.
@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.
@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.
@madargon @rhold I followed a lot of those kinds of accounts, from journalist lists, when I made my account in 2021 or 2022. Most of the ones I followed were abandoned within the year, which was a bummer, but there are new folks here worth following.
Propublica and 404 Media have an official presence on Fedi, for example!
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