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A Twitter that's free of reporters? Where do I sign up?
by jart 4y ago
A Twitter that's free of reporters? Where do I sign up?
- jacooper 4y agoSoon enough on twitter.com
- justahuman74 4y agoHead on over to twitter.com today!
- smoldesu 4y agoMastodon has been pretty good at defederating from journalism-based servers: https://www.cjr.org/analysis/journalists-want-to-recreate-twitter-on-mastodon-mastodon-is-not-into-it.php https://www.cjr.org/analysis/journalists-want-to-recreate-tw...
- jart 4y ago> Among the reasons given for blocking users from the server are that it is allegedly populated by “click-bait/tabloid journalists” who “can be expected to collect, search through, and misinterpret anything you say with the goal to share this publicly to an as big audience as possible, enabling hate and harassment to any one as long as it gives them clicks [sic].” Others who have blocked the server say that its members are likely to be “surveillance capitalists” or “mainstream propagandists.” I couldn't have said it better myself.
- BryantD 4y agoThis issue was over-emphasized, probably because it affected reporters and seemed exciting. There is not mass defederating from journa.host. Note that even in that article, it’s only 45 servers defederating a single journalism-oriented server.
- smoldesu 4y agoMy larger point is that Mastodon is the more likely place to find others sharing an anti-journalism sentiment.
- tensor 4y agoAnother reason why Mastodon will never be popular. It's already a bastion of misinformation. No thanks.
- smoldesu 4y agoI mean, Twitter is/was also a bastion of misinformation but that didn't stop it from being popular.
- tensor 4y agoTwitter at least made an effort to combat misinformation, while Mastodon apparently doesn't want journalists yet allows antivaxers free reign. Leaving moderation as a free for all is not the sort of platform I'm interested in.
- smoldesu 4y agoMastodon has plenty of servers that moderate anti-vax information. They're just not very popular.
- anigbrowl 4y agoThere's literally millions of places you can go to have conversations while completely ignoring the news, I'm not sure what you feel is missing beyond a vicarious feeling of power.
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- jacquesm 4y agoI definitely would make that case. Lots of news was broken on Twitter over the last years, including some pretty in-depth investigative reporting. Also in places that otherwise would not be figuring very high on the radar. Some of the Ukraine reporting on Twitter is Pulitzer level.
- anigbrowl 4y agoEither you don't actually use the platform and are just repeating things you've heard, or you are being melodramatic. Lots of news gets published first on Twitter. I feel no need to insinuate such assertions.
- rahimnathwani 4y agoNews != Reporters
- jacquesm 4y agoYou know that Twitter has a blocklist that you can control yourself? It's pretty easy to use too, just two clicks and you'll never see an account again. As for where to sign up, typically you go to the website you want to sign up for and then click 'Signup'. Right now that's the bottom right button when you visit if you are not logged in, it has the text 'sign up' on it to help guide you.
- rahimnathwani 4y agoThe blocklist isn't a practical solution to GP's problem, and I'm pretty sure (having read other things you've written) that you're smart enough to know this. There are many journalists on Twitter and they often show up in threads and/or have their comments retweeted. If GP doesn't want to see them (and I can empathize!), they'd have to click through to the profile of every tweet in their feed whose author they don't recognize, check the description to see if they're a journalist and, if so, block them. And they'd need to do this forever, as there will always be unrecognised accounts showing up in the feed.
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