Journalists want to re-create Twitter on Mastodon. Mastodon is not into it.
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Ever since Elon Musk completed his $45 billion takeover of Twitter last month, there has been a steady stream of users, including a number of journalists, signing up for Mastodon, an open-source alternative. No one controls Mastodon—or rather, everyone controls their own version of it. There are thousands of servers running the software, and each […]

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.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    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.

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    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?