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Mastodon has been pretty good at defederating from journalism-based servers: https://www.cjr.org/analysis/journalists-want-to-recreate-twitter-on-mastodon-masto
by smoldesu 4y ago
Mastodon 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.