Gregory's ServerLMAO. There's no journalist takeover of Mastodon. Most journalists are still sucking on the teat of Twitter—squeezing as much "engagement" out of it as possible.
Yes, even though Elon Musk hates them, they won't wean themselves off Twitter.
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 The smart, strategic thing for journalists to do is develop their own Fediverse platform. No, this wouldn't be Mastodon. But who in that industry will actually do that? @ashwin_baindur You'd need user roles and hierarchies, scheduling, support for drafts, assignments, among other features not supported currently in Mastodon.  @atomicpoet sounds a little like what Post attempts to be but without activitypub protocol. @atomicpoet a walled garden is the only thing corporations know will keep them safe and so that's where they migrate otherwise they might be held accountable. @atomicpoet @Sh4d0w_H34rt Noel Baron, CTO of Post, has said that ActivityPub is on their development roadmap for 1H 2023. "It’s cool if y’all visit Mastodon too, we don’t mind. We plan on supporting ActivityPub protocol in 2023." @atomicpoet @Sh4d0w_H34rt I have a lot of issues with those guys, and could barely believe it when I saw it, but there it is. @atomicpoet likely not the journos - maybe some adventurous product and tech team working in a media org though, where the software skills are already available there are some journalists who did create an instance. many of the journalists that i follow here are on that instance. can't remember what it is called and have no idea how it is run. @atomicpoet @SrRochardBunson We couldn’t even get it together to have a subscription that would feature access to all the papers in the chain. This feat would be WAY above the heads of anyone who’s left aboard that listing ship now. |
For the past 30 years, journalists have had the chance to re-invent their business.
Instead, they bemoan the death of their industry. First they blame Craigslist. Then they blame social media.
You know what I'm not seeing them do? Build a platform that enables the digital distribution of their work.
Instead, they rely on Google and Twitter.
What are the consequences? Contraction of revenue.
So no, journalists don't drive adoption of social media.