Mastodawn

marcus Jan 25, 2023

ChatGPT freaks me out.

It’s going to be utilised and industrialised by some very awful people.

marcus Jan 1, 2023

Mastodon seems very quiet lately

marcus Dec 16, 2022

Elon is doing a purge of competitors and journalists covering him. What a dumpster fire.

marcus Nov 13, 2022

Jay Rosen Nov 12, 2022

I did a little comparison: reach and reaction on Twitter and Mastodon.

I picked a subject typical of my feed and reworded it to be more native to Mastodon. Same link, issue, people, tone.

With 309 K followers on Twitter it got 81 shares and 179 likes

With 8.5 K followers on Mastodon: 123 shares and 195 likes.

Here are the two posts:

https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1591147769229557761 [305K followers, 81 shares, 179 likes]

https://mastodon.social/@jayrosen_nyu/109326807884220104 [8.5K followers, 123 RT, 195 likes]

Jay Rosen on Twitter

“"He asked: Do you really think we haven’t done enough coverage of the threats to democracy? "I responded emphatically that yes, I certainly did think that." @froomkin's dialogue with @blakehounshell of the New York Times is not to be missed. https://t.co/D1qnw0MkZv”

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