Gregory's ServerThe real paradox of the press is that they have two choices:
1. An open protocol for which they can report on news on their own terms
2. A proprietary platform where press inquiries are answered with 💩
And they opt for the 2nd option!
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People talk about how press is afraid to “give up followers”. Except: * Follower count is a vanity metric Case in point: @mmasnick is more influential on the Fediverse now than he ever was on Twitter. What’s he doing? He’s present, active, and conversational. That’s pretty much it. Other than being an early adopter, there’s no special sauce.  My posts are utterly unseen on Twitter. I get tons of great conversation on Mastodon. Somehow I'm heading for double the connections here. In addition each Mastodon connection is worth huge numbers of Twitter followers for interaction & reach. I've run tests. @atomicpoet 100 percent agree. So sad that so many folks gave Mastodon a 2 day trial before returning to Elmo. I do feel bad though for the good journalist that aren’t so big that feel the need to stay there for traffic to their newsletters… I get we all gotta eat but that really sucks. What I am noticing is it is much more likely to get interaction from "high follow" and my ordinary account here than it ever was on twitter. Not just Mike I have many examples now.  @atomicpoet @mmasnick Youʼve done pretty well yourself, Chris. Been following you since the 2010s here. @atomicpoet @mmasnick Well, there is what he writes. I kinda think of that as his special sauce.  @atomicpoet Such a good example. I'm delighted to follow @mmasnick here and had never even come across him over there. (I quit Twitter last December.)  @atomicpoet @mmasnick I'm having problems to get connections with my Spanish written toots, not so much problem when engaging in English. I think the Spanish people haven't came already to the Fediverse. I think the crucial part of it is that he's also generated consistent valuable microcontent. Some Twitter faces I've seen here have just been firing off a handful of very niche micro-blog statements ("I went for a walk this morning, it was snowy") or publicity copy ("my comedy tour is starting, dates and places on my website!") and expecting an audience to engage. Mas.to's local feed (to a lesser extent now) was filled with that content from randos - it's not valuable. @atomicpoet Love this! #FuckStatsMakeArt (reminds me of the old ChemLab slogan Fuck art. Let's kill)  @atomicpoet And since we're on about it: follower count is a completely fictitious vanity metric. Just ask Elon's bots, or all those media cos. that pivoted to video. What matters, per everything that I've seen on the subject, is 'engagement'. [shudders] Actual people, actually reading what's been written, and engaging with it. That's what advertisers are chasing, and the #FediVerse has that in spades. Hell, if Steak-Umm had got masto account, they'd have 100k followers in the 1st day. @atomicpoet Charming how throughout this thread you are assuming good faith on the part of the press. Just all the familiar character flaws including being sort-of thick, but not who owns them 😐 @atomicpoet, is it a paradox, though? People say the United States has a “free press”, but it’s owned entirely by a few corporations. @atomicpoet The media don't like the fediverse because of the tendency for media sites to get defederated for transphobia and similar. Which is, y'know... The whole point of the fediverse.  @atomicpoet |
@atomicpoet the press as a class is not known for adopting new things quickly. Also, the fediverse probably doesn’t have the tools and integrations they need/want eg analytics. They will get here eventually but not overnight.