Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 5 weeks agoThe journalist does the leg work to produce novel news.
Just to add that in addition to novelty, journalists provide valuable services, like
- holding up a mirror to the present culture
- documenting and disseminating happenings
- packaging up events into narratives
Not to say that you weren’t including these in “novel news,” but just to make it explicit.
sbv@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Absolutely - I wanted to list interactions between regular users and someone who makes money with a platform.
After a bunch of Twitter users (including journalists) bounced off Mastodon when Elon bought it, the fediverse needs to understand why, and think about what it means to be a viable platform.