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Good. It's clear now that Twitter is just an information control mechanism for Musk, and journalists should quit their addiction to it. I think every major news
by tapoxi 4y ago
Good. It's clear now that Twitter is just an information control mechanism for Musk, and journalists should quit their addiction to it. I think every major news outlet should have their own ActivityPub compatible service, essentially as a modern replacement for RSS.
- riffic 4y agowith ActivityPub you can have specific actors like @breaking@npr.org, @sports@npr.org, @finance@npr.org, @waitwaitdonttellme@npr.org, @reporter@npr.org, et cetera.
- VWWHFSfQ 4y agofor some reason I'm annoyed by all the @ symbols in these new things
- riffic 4y agoit was annoying to me to type it too! There are also webfinger URLs that serve the same purpose like https://mastodon.social/@gargron https://mastodon.social/@gargron == @gargron@mastodon.social
- paulej 4y agoThat's not a WebFinger URL. WebFinger URLs point to /.well-known/ path that returns a JSON document with links to other places for the user. To simplify WebFinger use by a human, we introduced acct:user@example.com syntax. And (at least my) WebFinger clients can assume the acct: part, much like email clients do for the email: scheme.
- nkcmr 4y agoYah, the one thing that I like about bluesky is their name-spacing: “sports.npr.org”
- soulofmischief 4y agoWe are coming full circle back to Usenet.
- Steltek 4y agoI like the Matrix format, "@user:domain.tld"
- mcv 4y agoI prefer the email format: user@domain.tld. There's no reason that can't be used for social media.
- mavhc 4y agowhat's the reason for the initial @ symbol, seems superfluous
- snickerbockers 4y agoSo it doesn't get mistaken for an email address.
- mavhc 4y agoIt's on Mastodon though, the automatic linking wouldn't add mailto: at the front, think it's worth the cost of a few people not being able to post their email address without a mailto:
- evilduck 4y agoReferencing one of these username handles in external CMS systems (news sites, blogs, etc) might automatically convert them in Rich Text editors, or just Word processors, or even operating system toolings. Seems worth not re-using the same URI format.
- connicpu 4y agoI would guess so that people don't confuse it with an email address
- aendruk 4y agoIt originated organically on Twitter as early users wrote “at” each other. Following that Twitter formally adopted it, and Mastodon imitated Twitter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mention_(blogging)#@_(at_sign) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mention_(blogging)#@_(at_sign) Within Mastodon’s UI usernames are typically displayed as just e.g. @breaking, avoiding the visual noise of multiple at signs.
- eastbound 4y agoStrange that labelling medias with their true funding diminishes their credibility so much that they’d flee to any place where this information is not disclosed.
- xdavidliu 4y agowhat percentage of NPR’s true funding was from the government?
- iamerroragent 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR#Funding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR#Funding I'm seeing about ~10% from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) which if I'm reading correctly is itself primarily funded by Federal grants.
- travisd 4y agoI suspect this is a bad-faith argument, but just to be clear, NPR get's a tiny fraction of its funding from the government *and* maintains editorial independence. > The news organization says that is inaccurate and misleading, given that NPR is a private, nonprofit company with editorial independence. It receives less than 1 percent of its $300 million annual budget from the federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
- kskdodo 4y ago[flagged]
- calvinmorrison 4y agoBeing free of direct government funding does not make it free from editorial independence. You can listen and get an idea of their underwriting. They're clear to walk the line around a lot of topics to not upset their corporate and non profit overlords. We live in a corporatocracy and these companies and non profits are revolving doors for regulatory capture through lobbying and other methods.
- corndoge 4y agoNot that rss really needs replacing - in fact using both is a great experience
- h2odragon 4y ago> Twitter is just an information control mechanism for Musk, and journalists should quit agreed. That was the case long before Musk. Would you have felt comfortable articulating that opinion, two years ago? When anything but Twitter was "an extremist echo chamber"? When the only censorship they were indulging in was the censorship we still can't talk about?
- preseinger 4y ago[flagged]
- alltwittersux 4y agoTwitter very regularly censored people on the left (the real left, not neo-liberals). Just ask any Bernie Sanders fan how "fair" Twitter was prior to Musk. Musk is just as bad though, just with his simp army and the alt-right.
- smoldesu 4y agoThey're right, though. Somewhere between the "Matt Tabbi truther" and "Dorsey supremacist" mindset, we can all acknowledge that Twitter is not an unbiased news source. It's a bunch of people competing for attention in a sinkhole that rewards the worst contributors most consistently. Even as a liberal progressive, the caliber of extremist 140 character takes Twitter has promoted drives me crazy. It precludes meaningful discussion and forces interactions into the outskirts, which (as the parent is joking about) ironically happens less on federated platforms.
- scythe 4y ago>Would you have felt comfortable articulating that opinion, two years ago? I posted rather often about how awful Twitter was long before there was a whiff of Musk buying it. (It's still awful.) I didn't really talk about "information control", but I don't care about that now, either; Twitter's audience was never that big.
- ModernMech 4y agoTwitter was also an extremist echo chamber. It's how the January 6th insurrection happened, a violent attack on the US Capitol that was organized, launched, and coordinated in real-time on Twitter. You can't do that if voices of sanity are seeping in. It's just that Twitter as many echo chambers, some bigger and more dangerous than others.
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- xnx 4y agoEmail remains undefeated as the original, indestructible, federated social network. It's a shame about the flub with Google Buzz, that could've been the basis for something great.
- timbit42 4y agoToo bad it's so centralized now.