Dan

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DanNov 20, 2022
Jay RosenNov 19, 2022

"What I’m finding most satisfying about Mastodon, and I’m seeing a lot of other journalists feel this, is that it actually forces you to ask and confront some of these questions and to make active choices. Even if Mastodon were to remain Twitter’s very tiny stepbrother, I would still like to be part of a Mastodon journalist community because I think we got lazy as a field, and we let Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and, god help us, Elon Musk decide..."

—@adamdavidson

https://themarkup.org/newsletter/hello-world/mastodons-moment

Mastodon’s Moment – The Markup

A conversation with Adam Davidson

Show threadDanNov 16, 2022
@mathewi The list you found is incomplete, is more than 45. The server I'm using the most (as opposed to the one I'm typing from now) is not on that list and is definitely blocking your server. When I attempted to follow On the Media, the admin gave a different reason for the block than you reported. They told me that your server is unmoderated and that they don't take any chances that a new collection of nazis might form and harass their server anew. They are unimpressed by journalists.
Show threadDanNov 14, 2022

@onthemedia

Noooooooo!!!!! Not that you're here. That's great! Just that the server I'm using as a home (not this account) blocks your server for being unmoderated. That means I can't follow you where I'm paying the most attention.

DanNov 7, 2022

@obsolete29 @piper

It wasn't immediately obvious to me what "federated" meant and more importantly how instances got linked. Right now it feels a bit clunky, unintuitive and even laggy so I'm sure that, if Mastodon catches on, there will be an increasing number of people who don't understand and aren't adept at figuring it out. It does make this software more interesting to me though.