I've been disgusted by the lack of professional solidarity among journalists ever since Musk bought Twitter. As Musk bans journalists one-by-one, their colleagues stay on Twitter, tweeting out their work, hoping that they'll survive the next round.

@chadloder If you're a journalist (or any writer trying to increase eyeballs), don't you syndicate wherever you can to get more views? fb, twitter, lefty mastodon, righty mastodon, whoever will host your content for free, why not?

I mean, some outlets have an answer to "why not?", like NPR's "why not?" is that it can't use the platform without the platform calling them government propaganda or however it was phrased; free publishing in that context was deemed not worth the reputation hit etc.

Surely using the platform is implied endorsement of all of the companies actions.

Maybe your point is: if one journalist gets off twitter then that will ever-so-slightly push consumers off twitter – there's less to read there.

But I kinda think that won't work. Who will get off? Exactly the people who agree with you anyway about Twitter's actions despite being on twitter already. Like what's the point of that.

@ech No, I don't think principled journalism can justify, for example, appearing on Tucker Carlson's show, or even frankly using Substack.