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Dan Gillmor
Just noticed a great Mastodon (web) feature: mouse-over emoticons and you get a popup saying what they are. If you are as emoticon-illiterate as me, you'll find this super-useful.
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Dan Gillmor
I posted this on the deadbird site: "Standing offer for journalists: I'll help you get set up on Mastodon and will help you bring your Twitter audience along (and find new followers and rich engagement there). All I ask is that you migrate -- over time, not instantly -- your social media activity there."
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rouxdoo
I'm sure you know your friends better than I but I have followed you for a short bit here on masto and I can confidently say that you are truly polarized on your twit/masto opinions...that might have an impact on your audience's reception of the message. You catch more flies with honey is a universal truth. Lure them don't berate them for their current pattern perhaps? I love that you are here and want your ilk to come too because it is where I want to engage with others. Thanks.
LA Legault βπ»
Itβs not going to happen. Journalists subjects are on twitter (governments, companies, etc). Mastodon doesnβt have the #s or the interface or onboarding, and I have spoken to many at length. 
Dan Gillmor
Dear journalists: You continue to pour your work into Musk's business. You are supporting him. You are helping him. You are doing this despite his demonstrated contempt for you, despite his support for extremists -- and, as of today, his rank anti-semitism (effectively blaming Jews for his vile site's loss of advertising) I know that you believe you get value from being "where the people are" -- but sometimes principle requires sacrifice. So much is at stake.
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Richard W. Woodley NO THREADS π¨π¦πΉπ΄ββοΈπ· πΊοΈ
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Sam
@dangillmor itβs the ego vs ethics test of 2023. So many hacks claiming to βjustβ promote their work there because they canβt face losing an audience. Itβs risible. The smallest possible protest too much for those addicted to clicks.
Dan Gillmor
Dear journalists: By remaining on Elon Musk's platform you are -- knowingly or not -- directly supporting your enemy. He is systematically turning his platform into a showcase for people and entities that see democracy as an impediment to achieving what can accurately be understood as fascist goals. Wrecking democracy means destroying freedom of expression -- the basis of what you do. For your own sake, and for your honor, please leave. 
Six Grandfathers Mountain
#rachelmaddow #alivelshi etc etc on #msnbc are doing great work, they have good guests on with professional experience in their fields But, I wonder why so many don't mention Mastodon especially when they know the shitshow #twitter is and it's problems, #x #TwitterCrash #twittermigration But no MASTODON LOVE, whyβοΈ Because #comcast (owners of #msnbc) pay them good π²π΅π² is it β#selfcensorshipβοΈ #monopolies have a lot of power, because they are the forever super rich 
Tofu Golem
@dangillmor If moderation falls below a certain critical point, the result is always child porn and Nazis. Twitter is just a few pedophiles short of becoming 4Chan.
Dominic.tech
@dangillmor why there is no big association of journalists to create an official #fediverse instance for all journalists around the world ? That could be a good start to make them leave the old bird site.
Dan Gillmor
It gets more absurd every day for Big Journalism to keep pouring its work into Saudi-government-funded Twitter, which is controlled by a right-winger who hates real journalism and boosts extremists. It gets even more absurd for journalism orgs to keep embedding tweets in their stories, given Musk's unfathomable destruction of the platform's usefulness. I keep wondering when journalists will discover that big tech is not their daddy.
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Theriac
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Dan Gillmor
If you're thinking of using Facebook/Instagram's Twitter clone, here's a reminder of just how invasive it will be of your privacy: h/t @nelson
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FinchHaven
This late-arriving (July 4 am) is instructive: "App privacy details on the App Store The App Store now helps users better understand an appβs privacy practices before they download the app on any Apple platform. On each appβs product page, users can learn about some of the data types the app may collect, and whether that data is linked to them or used to track them."  
Kevin Karhan :verified:
@dangillmor @nelson not only theirs but everyone elses, as they'll scrape everything!
Dan Gillmor
Right now -- today -- would be a great day for some socially responsible philanthropy to support the migration from Twitter to the fediverse of all the organizations, such as the weather service, that realize they can no longer remotely rely on it to connect to the public.
Dan Gillmor
ChatGPT is now refusing to provide links to articles it says I wrote. This makes sense since I didn't write four of the five it cited, and the fifth is a book title, not an article.
Dan Gillmor
It is simply astonishing that companies are embedding technology into search engines that makes them vastly, vastly worse at finding accurate information.
Dan Gillmor
After Reddit's beyond-arrogant CEO dismissed the subreddit blackout as just posturing, moderators of discussions extended the blackout. This is the only sensible response to the company's contempt. https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/13/23759674/reddit-mods-blackout-protest-extended-indefinitely Please stay the course. For my part, I'm canceling my Reddit account and looking at decentralized alternatives.
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The Coog Abides
@dangillmor the message is on the medium is the message is on the medium is the message is on the medium is the message is on the medium is the message
Nick
@dangillmor I just hit 14 years on Reddit, but it's clear that yet another great project is being lost to corporate greed. I don't plan on going back, although I have a huge sense of disconnect.
Dan Gillmor
Elon Musk is a Trump-level deadbeat -- and it's part of his business plan. Reminder: Only the ultra-wealthy are allowed to get away with this kind of thing.
Dan Gillmor
There is only one correct response when an organization like @gutenberg_org joins the fediverse (Mastodon in this case): "Welcome!" 
Dan Gillmor
Dear developers: I don't want to use your app on my phone. I want a mobile web version, and you can do that. Thanks kindly.
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kgoldsholl
@dangillmor for people who don't want to use a browser, postd.io and notd.io use progressive web apps, which are basically a dedicated instance of the browser you choose. There is no data collection and no ads. When tech/media writers eventually write about those networks, they will no doubt complain about the lack of "real" apps, without realizing it's better for users. 
EndlessMason
@dangillmor imagine being a dev on the mobile web site team and some product person makes you add an "our stuff is way better in the app, the mobile site is bad, actually" banner to the very mobile site you've been working on for 40 hours a week
Dan Gillmor
Mozilla's Firefox is walling off each site's cookies from other sites, which is helpful for privacy. I block ALL third-party cookies and use add-ons that further protect me from the increasingly evil ad-tech industry's relentless spying.
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Stefan Scholl
@dangillmor Before the web, ads in newspapers, on TV and radio, they all worked. Advertising was a big business. 
Benjamin
@dangillmor Though given the marketshare of #Firefox compared to chromium browsers it arguably does make fingerprinting easier. 
Sagebiel Markus
@dangillmor not addon fan. edge strong filter @charles_ex smart @aloa5 @Ginger149 @stefanieschulte
Dan Gillmor
When you refer to Musk's site, you should call it "Saudi-funded Twitter" just for the sake of consistency. Bonus: You'd be 5x more accurate than his claim that NPR, which gets about 1% of its money from taxpayers (well, their grandchildren), is "government funded".
Dan Gillmor
Meanwhile, NPR continues to show its fundamental cowardice by remaining on Saudi-funded Twitter despite Musk's visible contempt for it, and for all journalism other than right-wing mockery of the press.
Dan Gillmor
Mega-hypocrites at Musk site go on bended knee to India's increasingly dictatorial regime, which is on the attack against free speech the government doesn't like. https://restofworld.org/2023/twitter-blocked-access-punjab-amritpal-singh-sandhu/ Pre-Musk Twitter fought back against these attacks, on principle -- a quality the current management profoundly lacks.
Michael Vilain
@dangillmor Modi's journey to a fascist dictatorship isn't got much farther to go. He put someone in jail because he claimed the guy "defamed India".
Dan Gillmor
This is brilliant data-infused journalism: Washington Post correlates terrible credit scores in the U.S. South with the refusal of state governments to expand federally funded Medicaid, creating vast amounts of medical debt and bankruptcies. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/02/17/bad-southern-credit-scores/ Republican ideologues have made their states even poorer, and their citizens far worse off in all kinds of ways. This is one of them. Of course, they're proud of it.
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GhostOnTheHalfShell
@dangillmor the conservative mind sees prosperity as civilizational ruin and they have since 71. They've poured hundreds of millions each year acting on that belief
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Dan Gillmor
A genuine breakthrough in Mastodon/fediverse: @buffer -- a tool for managing social media accounts -- now supports this place. https://buffer.com/mastodon
Dan Gillmor
I keep saying journalists should leave Twitter and use Mastodon, which is better for them in every way. At TechDirt I've posted a somewhat lengthy why-and-how: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/04/journalists-and-others-should-leave-twitter-heres-how-they-can-get-started/
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Laimis
@dangillmor uggg it will be extremely difficult for people to move... Normal users are addicted to chatter that never stops and things being pushed to them, other accounts like journalists are addicted to exposure they get, the likes, the engagement... It's a mount everest type uphill climb. I still hope twitter gets replaced by federated social media but just don't see it yet how
Dan Gillmor
It's too late to delete your Twitter DMs. Even if the pre-Musk Twitter didn't save copies anyway -- even after you deleted them -- you can be certain that Musk has done so. If it's true that he gave Weiss, an ideologue, direct access to internal systems, then you should assume the very worst from a privacy perspective. Hello, FTC???
GhostOnTheHalfShell
@dangillmor Agreed. This act should cause every governing commission to shut it. Do you know if the released content is international or restricted to the US. 
AlgoCompSynth by znmeb
@dangillmor How many civil suits is Musk already facing? I've seen lots of press and Musk-bashing and coverage of his stunts, but precious little actual reporting of what legal liabilities his various "enterprises" are facing. That's where the rubber meets the road - in court, not in the press. 12
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@dangillmor π Iβm not on the web. I just hope this one means high ten.
@dangillmor
Yes it's helpful, eh.πβ
@dangillmor though itβs worth noting emoticons are often used in ways slightly or significantly different from their βdesignedβ meaning