Here’s an important question about Mastodon from a media person. Any tips to unsilo it?!
@NicoleCRust “tweet deleted”
@neuralengine Too bad! It was a response to my suggestion to Tom Insel (former NIMH director) that he should consider Mastodon over LinkedIn. A media person responded that it is difficult for her to imagine how she would navigate the platform for her pieces, “too siloed”. That’s a real problem, I think.
https://twitter.com/thomasinselmd/status/1594435826179403777
@NicoleCRust yes I think that’s right. I think we can just about manage. But the way the news media use Twitter is so much more distributed - I don’t think mastodon will work for them in its current form.
@neuralengine @NicoleCRust I don’t agree. If you have a large following, posts will end up on timelines all over the fediverse. The main drawback of mastodon for large orgs is that they can’t pay for their posts to be promoted.
@jiahongbo @NicoleCRust @neuralengine everytime a post gets boosted it appears again in a timeline. So I think the timeZone isssue is smaller than you think. But I do have similar concerns about advertising and bots ruining this place as soon as there is enough critical mass.
@jerlich @NicoleCRust @neuralengine yes, i believe it's only a matter of short time that our brains get updated with the new fediverse of Mastodon. Learning is what brains are created for....
@jiahongbo @NicoleCRust @neuralengine
I'm also not worried about the ability to participate in sustained conversation. Once you reply in a thread, the default for further replies is to add your tag, so you will end up with a notification.
Even better, my instance, qoto.org allows 2^16 characters per toot! So, in theory people can express themselves a little more clearly. (but the downside is rambling....)
