if we do one thing differently with mastodon, please let it be deprioritizing the creation of content purely for engagement

at this small size now it feels more authentic, people just sharing without much overhead

This could be done from both the design of creation tools to providing tools to viewers.

example:
- let people on a server flag a post based on admin-created types (clickbait, fake, shitpost)
- let people have their own client rules for those posts - be it hide or minimize them etc

This is the way forwards. Control your own presence on social media.
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RT @adamdavidson
Dear @nytimes @CNN @washingtonpost

You really should just have your own Mastodon server.

You control it. But everyone can read it and you can interact with them.

No need to outsource distribution decisions.

Happy to help. @adamdavidson
https://twitter.com/adamdavidson/status/1603579335079763971

Every news outlet should stand up a Mastondon instance for their reporters & staff.

It’ll be great to see [email protected] or whatever domain they want to use.

Built in verification. Every reporter for the Washington Post on a washpo domain. Every reporter for the New York Times on an NYTimes domain. Etc, etc.

Plus the “local” feed for each instance becomes a feed of all the posts from that institution mixed together — providing extra discovery.

The best career advice I have:

Be kind. To everyone.

In 1941, Nazis asked the city of Amsterdam to make this map of Jews in the city. Each dot equalled 10 Jews.

In 2022, TX AG @KenPaxtonTX sought data from driver's licenses on #transgender Texans.

But don't worry. History never repeats itself. #LGBTQ+
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/12/14/texas-transgender-data-paxton/

Yup, super looking forward to winter when we all collectively forget about germ theory, then pay for it the rest of the year before starting anew. ❄️

So this, but make it a #tripledemic. Remember as you make plans over the next few weeks, pediatric ICUs are massively over capacity around the country already. We can't do this again.
#PandemicIsNotOver #COVID #COVID19 #Pandemic #COVIDisAirborne #RSV

NEW from us today:

Zoe Schiffer on how Twitter botched its war on bots over the weekend;

and, I wrote about why I'm beginning to leave the site behind

https://www.platformer.news/p/how-elon-botched-his-war-on-bots