About a month ago, I observed that two main things I found lacking here vs. Twitter were accounts from professional creatives (artists, etc) and discussion of breaking news.
The creatives have definitely started to arrive. But the breaking news has been much slower. However, it also seems like breaking news is starting to disappear from Twitter.
I wonder what will fill that gap. Perhaps it will be here, eventually.
@mattblaze same. for news I partially solved this by following a number of news bots which mirror major news orgs from twitter. but it would certainly be better if those news orgs set up direct Mastodon presence. there are a few. @nbcnews is here and some WaPo reporters were saying that it is considering setting up an instance but that hasn't happened yet.
