NolanApr 28, 2017
Tech journalists on Mastodon: "Mastodon Inc only has 50,000 users, but with adequate venture capital funding it may stand a chance"
Show threadNolanApr 28, 2017
More tech journalism on Mastodon: "Mastodon is currently a free service, but soon it will bend to the iron will of Silicon Valley, which is that you either sell out to investors or become irrelevant like Wikipedia."
Show threadNolanApr 28, 2017
Still more tech journalism on Mastodon: "Mastodon cannot survive with such a silly name. It needs a more serious and business-friendly name, such as Google, Yahoo, or Hulu."
Show threadNolanApr 28, 2017
It's almost as if tech journalists do the bare minimum of research before moving on to the next topic. Or that the tech industry has become so focused on chasing giant piles of money that nobody can remember a time when true successes on the internet were achieved by hobbyists working on passion projects with no regard for how much money they might make
Show threadᏒ๐ϲoᴄo Ⅿoԁｅm ᏴaｓіliｓkApr 28, 2017

@nolan
Tech journalism has become business journalism (unfortunately, since tech & business are mostly unrelated).

You can check with currently-working tech journalists on here but I assume some of the shallowness can be attributed to short deadlines. ( @sonya & @klintron can verify or refute)

Show threadNolan
@enkiv2 @klintron @sonya Yeah and of course I'm not riffing on all tech journalists; there are good ones. But man when I look up "news" articles about Mastodon sometimes it's really depressing.
Apr 28, 2017 at 2:46pmWeb
Show threadᏒ๐ϲoᴄo Ⅿoԁｅm ᏴaｓіliｓkApr 28, 2017

@nolan
I'm suggesting more of a systemic issue.

When people I *know* are intelligent, careful, deep thinkers whose opinions I respect nevertheless write bad, shallow articles, I can't blame the authors and have to blame capitalism. (Or the structure of the industry or whatever.)

Show threadKlint FinleyApr 30, 2017
@nolan @sonya @enkiv2 A certain amount of "shallowness" also stems from the fact that there's only so-much detail you can cram into an article with fewer than 1,000 words, especially when those words are written in a few hours.
Show threadKlint FinleyApr 30, 2017
@enkiv2 @sonya @nolan Even with relatively long deadlines and high word counts, there's always going to be stuff that gets left out or glossed over. Sarah Jeong's Mastodon piece was over 3,000 words and there were still lots of things that she didn't cover. Seems like she got a lot of grief for that.
Show threadKlint FinleyApr 30, 2017

@nolan @sonya @enkiv2 Actually, looking through the stories I can find on Mastodon, I can't find *any* that say it's going to fail because it doesn't have VC, or even any that give Masto's lack of VC funding more than a passing mention.
www.theverge.com/2017/4/4/15177856/mastodon-social-network-twitter-clone

mashable.com/2017/04/04/mastodon-twitter-social-network/

www.wired.com/2017/04/like-twitter-hate-trolls-try-mastodon/

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