Point taken. I didn't actually follow the link. Just saw the domain and, in my mind 'Mastodon = Twitter-Lite'. >If something's of interest but poorly formatt

Point taken. I didn't actually follow the link. Just saw the domain and, in my mind 'Mastodon = Twitter-Lite'. >If something's of interest but poorly formatted, posting it here doesn't seem that unreasonable? No offence meant. It's just one of my bug-bears at the minute that practically every news site on the planet now [even supposedly professional outfits like the BBC and Reuters] seems to have abandoned any pretence at primary research in favour of endlessly quoting what people tweeted... often with a screengrab of the tweet and then the content of the tweet written out underneath. As someone who has nothing to do with Twitter [or FB or Mastodon for that matter] I just find it both extremey irritating and equally as alarming that it seems to be becoming the de facto place where journalist go to research a story. Hence why I tend to voer-react when I see the same tendency creeping in on HN, which I used to think of as a 'place where I can go to read interesting science and technology articles that people have come across'. If I wanted to know what someone tweeted, I'd go directly to Twitter. I can really do without the entire newsgathering section of the internet turning into a Twitter mirror site.