I’ve been reading news stories about how Mastodon is <whiny_voice>too haaaaard</whiny_voice> so I’m not expecting too many millions of new users here.
I started reading this article by @mathewi that explores much of this. It's an interesting read so far: https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/twitter_musk_dying_journalism.php
@brass75 @paul @mihobu @volkris @mathewi @glennf
Thanks -- and thanks for inclusion in the discussion/thread.
I fear that Michael is right, especially about journalists flocking to where the numbers seem to be. They want to maintain mass media.
But mass was always a lie.
And Twitter was never a monolith ("Twitter says...").
Both were media illusions.
I try hard, rarely successfully, to convince media folks that relationships and conversations matter more.
@jeffjarvis @brass75 @paul @mihobu @mathewi @glennf
Maybe one issue is that conversations take time, and as the academics jokingly say, "You should be writing"?
I like to think that ActivityPub features can help make a journalist's time spent engaging more efficient, automating and organizing some of the tasks they'd spend their time on with platforms like Twitter.
*(To be clear, the "You" there is the general you from the joke, for anyone not familiar with the trope)*
