Sonya Mann ✅Both articles about Mastodon (Sarah's on Vice and Casey's on The Verge) are missing a ton of context about the Fediverse that came first, and the community schisms. From Casey's piece it would be easy to think that Mastodon was invented from whole cloth; it wasn't.
To be clear, there are good parts of both articles (especially Sarah's). They're just both incomplete. We need a full-length magazine feature to explain all of this, tbh.
JJ 🔇「cιtιƶεnƒιvε」🏴Ⓐ@sonya no need to mince words, Casey's is hilariously embarrassing next to Sarah's, she only got one thing wrong (and only if we're being strict). There's no Masto "protocol". But it is sorta it's own standard rn so also it is a bit
@five yeah, I think Sarah's was about 1000x better than Casey's, and I'm not pleased with his shruggy reaction to a basic fact-check either: https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/849349371271491586
@sonya there's journalists, and then "journalists" lol
Naomi Wu@SexyCyborg most people never get this @sonya
@five @SexyCyborg in particular on Twitter follower count is worthless for anything but optics because of all the spam accounts