How's it feel understanding just how despised you professional liars are? At last, we can talk back to them and let them know just how much damage they're doing.
waahhh some people on the internet don't want to read my tweets
this has got to be the least newsworthy thing i've read in a year
Legacy blue checkmark dork gets blocked, writes crybaby article about it in the *checks notes* Columbia Journalism Review :agony-shivering:
Strongest sales pitch for Mastodon I've seen so far.
There are approximately seven thousand Mastodon servers at the moment, so the fact that forty-five of them block one server of journalists isn’t really the end of the world. But it remains to be seen whether Mastodon overall will welcome an influx of reporters fleeing Twitter and hoping to re-create what they had there.
Eh.
This is pretty standard fare in decentralized Internet spaces. "Mastodon" isn't doing anything, here. Its just rival online communities engaging in the standard tribalist fracturing you'd regularly see between Reddit subs.
As certain communities grow, they'll become central nods for the rest of the space. And they'll become entrance points for new members of the community, which will make them a vital link to the confederated communities.
The only question is which communities grow fastest. (Hint: it'll be the ones with the biggest advertising budgets)
I think what’s surprising the journalists is that there is even such a thing as decentralized internet spaces.
Mastodon is just Reddit subs with a Twitter front end. I don't think the mechanics are surprising, just the politics. And, again, if Mastodon fills up with corporate brands and their media flacks, it'll hardly matter. Planet Money will Confederate with Pepsi Co and the FBI and nobody will care that some small fries aren't along for the ride.
Mastodon will be as suseptible to the networking effect as everything else.
why would a community have an advertising budget? every new member they take on is extra cost on their end with 0 methods to actually monetise them; the moment they pull anything, their members can move to another server that communicates with their server anyway unless they literally lock it down and do not federate with anyone else
to put pay to this claim, a lot of servers are not down with how poorly moderated the biggest entrypoint to the fediverse, mastodon dot social, is so they completely block them off. can you be a central node if a subsection of the network can just ignore you like that?
why would a community have an advertising budget?
:fedposting:
Like the Us government opens an official instance or something?
Official, no. But National Endowment for Democracy, USAid, etc.
Why even hide? Couldn't they just ask and enough people would willingly hitch there wagons to nato.instance to start some sort of protacted yankee's war against anyone who blocks them? Or am I overestimating the interest level a bit.
Sure, but the point is to manufacture consent, which works by making you think people are coming to their opinions organically. That requires the illusion of multiple, non-affiliated sources; otherwise it's just open propaganda.
It is not tribalism to ostracize harmful predators who cause real-life damage to real people.
Let's not crap on a rare L for them.
Its not meaningful if its just a few dozen tag tag hobbyist instances in a pool of thousands.
Note: An earlier version of this story linked to a website associated with KiwiFarms, an online forum known for harassing other users. That link has been removed.
Journalistic integrity at work, folks
from my understanding someone on kf developed the tool that scrapes instance blocking, which is how they were able to figure out how many instances block journo.host
A server that caters specifically to journalists was set up recently by Adam Davidson, creator of NPR's Planet Money podcast. At last count, the server, called journa.host, had about thirteen hundred users, including some prominent journalists (and me). Earlier this week, a user of another network pointed out that about forty-five "instances" are blocking all content from members of journa.host.
I follow some shitty liberals on Twitter for fun and to hate read. Adam Davidson is one. He's the worst sort of shitty liberal. He's a centrist who believes in civility and the importance of the discourse especially with people "you don't agree with." For example - he does a podcast or something with a fundie. I checked the fundies' Twitter account and every 10th word he mentions Jesus or praying or god or faith.
Edit
I had a look at his recent Twitter activity - Adam Davidson @adamdavidson@journa.host (@adamdavidson)
I got a surprise. He's somehow angry at Nate Silver. To paraphrase a retweet - "Silver's white dude (increasingly reactionary) centrism."
What did Davidson think would happen when the media thinks that its job is to normalize abhorrent and vile right-wing POVs?
I love the position this puts them in. It's like watching an ivory tower sinking into a swamp. :antelope-popcorn:
Wait, PMC Bookchin anarcho-neoliberals are literally creating the accerationist Silicon Valley neofeudal society and think they’re the good ones? Journos might be PMC but they actually provide some value to society beyond idealist technocrat utopianism lol
:brainworms:
Sectarianism folks. Its not good for your mind.
PMC Bookchin anarcho-neoliberals
:miyazaki-laugh: BMF has sent a silly letter on this day
I would at least read a Wikipedia article on Bookchin before trying to use the name like that.
Having followed Mastodon stuff for awhile now, you're absolutely right. It's like a leftist funhouse mirror version of Reddit, where all the petty tyrants are still middle class narcissists, they just dress stuff up in Social Justice language and go on insane personal crusades.
Generally yeah, but it's pretty chill now that we have an instance that's "for us by us" (is that problematic to say lol?)
All I hope is that all bluecheck capitalist loving DC access scumbags lose money on this, journalism in the west is dead and I hope these zombies eat shit
