#Journalists: We have an opportunity to define better ethics around how we treat non-public figures on Mastodon. Some Qs to get the convo going (non-journos, please weigh in too!):

• How do we responsibly boost, quote, link to, and otherwise cite public posts by non-public figures?

• Does the decentralized nature of Mastodon change the nature of how we treat what is shared here vs centralized, corporate platforms?

• How do we responsibly judge who has power and who doesn’t on Mastodon?

Four days ago: huh this place is empty. Ooh I can follow three parked accounts

Yersterday morning: maybe 10% or so of the people I follow regularly on the bird site are here

Now: huh think it's fully half or more are here

It's a flood peeps. Never thought I'd see anything like it