Way"Will Mastodon make any money?" scream the journalists, who have forgotten the joy of building sandcastles on the beach
Katharsisdrill@way - They are obsessed with growth - tho only reason the write about us in the first place.
Jim Fenton 🇺🇸🇨🇦@way There are many things we need that don't have tidy business models. Mastodon has its distributed nature working in its favor, unlike centralized services whose long-term sustainability is also in doubt.
Keith Winter@way I agree. Why does everything have to be about money?
IndignantBastardThat's word
Constance Variable@way sandcastles usually don't try to fill permanent community and project manager positions, though.
vruz [DEAD ACCOUNT]@way They already have Twitter and the whole of the web to themselves plastered with ads. I have no idea why would anyone here care for their litter getting privileged treatment. They can have their own instances to pollute with ads if they wish.
Matt Arnold@way My roommate is a local journalist and explained it to me this way. A journalist's ability to pay for their minimum survival without changing careers into something else, is tied up in online advertising or other monetization.
Our ability to know what is happening in the world is now dependent on corporate control to fund journalists not dying of pneumo in a cardboard box under a bridge.
The Fediverse can't do that, and they see that as the death of what little is left of their profession.
Matt Arnold@mattarnold @way To put a fine point on it:
Journalists report "Mastodon doesn't pay", because it doesn't pay **for journalists**.