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 Reading about that Press Gazette article, it seems they have an axe to grind against Mastodon. Sure, Alphaville closed their Mastodon server. But why? Because they allowed open sign-ups, which enabled anyone to join their server, and Alphaville didn’t have the resources to moderate it. Yet the Press Gazette don’t mention that. Meanwhile, @TexasObserver runs their Mastodon server quite well, and even used it for crowdfunding—which has helped their publication survive! 19 comments
 @atomicpoet @TexasObserver I've beat this drum a lot, but I believe if you're any sort of public facing organization you need to run a closed instance for your people and sponsor open instances in your vertical. I often wonder why Press gets the reporting of Mastodon and the Fediverse so wrong. And it’s because they’re not actually doing reporting. They just want to repeat the current narrative. Wow! Mastodon is growing fast! Wait! It’s dying! Well, actually, it’s growing but its growth is slowing even though I’m offering no stats to back up that assertion! And I’ve cited another inaccurate media report to back me up! This entire narrative arc occurred within the past 6 months. The growth is steady and slow and very awesome! The majority of the "reporting" I've seen on Mastodon.... It seems that they're just making it up and calling it in. @atomicpoet I suspect journalist Mastodon is a very different place from what I've seen, given how many admins actively block journalists and journalist instances. People talk about ChatGPT being inaccurate, and that’s true. But is it that more inaccurate than all those bad journalists who just make stuff up? Because believe me, I’ve seen so many articles where fact checkers are asleep at the wheel! You know why ChatGPT is taking over? Because too many publications no longer give a damn about facts.  @atomicpoet No one gives a damn about content. And they haven't for a long time, because internet. And the search engines know that, which is why they're looking at LLMs to replace indexes. If there’s one positive outcome that I hope comes from ChatGPT, it’s for journalists to separate bullshit from fact. That’s the real value of journalism—ideally.  @atomicpoet Definitely feel like it's giving me a needed workout on the reader side. https://mastodon.social/@misc/110154242580828692 Many 'journalists' are literally paid to produce BS that adds noise not signal. The, few admittedly, I know are well aware. They mostly are deeply frustrated they can't get paid to do investigative or truth to power stuff. They need food, shoes for the kids, pay mortgage and bills. Either we pay journalists to get social good journalism, or bad faith businesses will pay them to provide distracting 'free' BS. Fediverse revolution dreams. User funded Fediverse News24...   @atomicpoet Sadly, a large part of the media cares more about their bottom line than the truth and a ridiculous number of them even the ones that pretend to be liberal are owned by old white guys. Those old white guys, whether they support Republicans or the #farL don’t care about facts. They only care about manipulating their readers.  @atomicpoet It is the scourge of anyone who uses a search engine and is likely being accelerated due to chatgpt  @atomicpoet Journalists really don't do their profession any favors. It's self-inflicted at this point. @atomicpoet @atomicpoet There is a bot that posts #Mastodon user counts on an hourly basis. So growth stats are backed. |
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And thrive even. But they want to exist in the preplanned and measured lanes. The cheese has moved and they aren't looking around for more.