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But as a journalist, it would be immoral and extremely selfish for me to stay quiet after taking care of my personal needs, and not express my serious concerns and worry for the future of journalism safety on Mastodon, and for the friends and colleagues who remain connected to both instances. I feel very uneasy at how things are looking like for the press. This is the last thing I expected to see happen on a platform that marketed itself as a safe escape in the midst of the #TwitterMigration. 4 comments
Monitoring instances is no easy task. It requires commitment, finances and a dedicated team. I can understand if the team overseeing Journa decided that after a year, other parties should shoulder the burden. On top of your day job, family etc...you're dealing with the daily demand to clean a platform that threatens to be swarmed by fascists, trolls and racists if abandoned for even a day. I imagine it can be rigorous. But...journalists should have been notified. Not notifying us was wrong. Personally, I'm not willing to compromise. I lived and worked in a country where journalism results in life sentences. As a result, I spent years in exile, investigating war crimes and it came with maneuvering past cyber lynch mobs, daily death threats, and slander both online, offline and on regime propaganda TV. Forgive me if I'm unwilling to gamble or risk anything. I can do without the uncertainty. Lastly, considering that journalists are by nature people who question and dig away at anything screaming a lack of transparency, I'm surprised that only a few (if any?) journalists have sounded alarms or protested. Journalists flocked to Mastodon last year, and a year later, there's barely a whimper as one man's silent takeover/ownership of journalism platforms and even a verification tool here has him establish a monopoly, despite none of you knowing anything about him. You shock me! FIN. |
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@ZekuZelalem I was happy to see your post from your new location -- my follow converted automatically.
Clicking on your old account, it comes up as both greyed-out, and announcing you've moved to your new location (as well as providing a button to pull up the new address).
I'm pretty darned impressed with that level of migration management built in.