Is 2023 the year when mainstream journalists take #Mastodon seriously as an alternative to Twitter?
I still come across journalists at popular tech publications who mock Mastodon as a platform worth using, and prefer to stick with the moral hazard that Twitter has become.
@paul I hope not. I don't want journalists here doing their self-promotion and pot-stirring.
@brass75 I want to at least have the option to follow the journalists I respect in the #Fediverse. Just because journalists use services like #Mastodon doesn't mean you have to follow them.
Remember, there's no algorithm shoving unwanted posts and users into your feed.
Besides, there are many really good, diligent journalists who do good work.
FWIW, I'd say @brass75 's contribution here helps make this a time when I'd avoid talking about #Mastodon instead of #Fediverse
Journalists contributing to this platform have so much more ability than they had through #Twitter largely because #ActivityPub can do so much more, if only they don't restrain themselves down to only using Mastodon.
This is one huge sellingpoint to get them moving over, so it's worth emphasizing.
With ActivityPub a journalist can integrate Fediverse directly into their content publishing systems to engage with readers in all sorts of new ways.
Yeah, imagine the workflow of even a freelancer submitting an article to a magazine that publishes it, with their publication system directly linking it into #Fediverse without jumping through any hoops, where the writer can boost it, driving the extra traffic right to the magazine website.
The magazine gets extra views, the article gets extra views which is good for the writer, and it all becomes self-reinforcing.
Writers would prefer magazines with Fediverse presence, magazines would publish more from writers driving that traffic, everyone wins.
This is just one example of how the openness of #ActivityPub helps transcend what #Twitter offered, but only if #Mastodon is not seen as the end all of the platform.
