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   Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 06:59:57 JST Chris Trottier

   It's funny how, in a space of a year, we've gone from, "The Fediverse will fail because no one uses it" to "The Fediverse will fail because everyone will soon use it."

   Some people just prefer doom and gloom, I guess.

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     Jeff Jarvis (jeffjarvis@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 06:59:56 JST Jeff Jarvis

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     @atomicpoet
     Journalists, mainly.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 06:59:56 JST Chris Trottier

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     • Jeff Jarvis

     @jeffjarvis I genuinely think this is an opportunity for journalists to offer feedback, help build something that is genuinely *usable* for their profession.

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     Fediverse Report (fediversereport@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 06:59:56 JST Fediverse Report

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     @atomicpoet @jeffjarvis I've been surprised that not more journalists are jumping on the massive opportunity thats here on the fediverse. My background is not even in journalism, and it's been obvious to me.

     Especially for independent journalists, where you depend on having building your own audience, there is simply so much value in being early to a new network.

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     Joe Uchill (joeuchill@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 07:35:04 JST Joe Uchill

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     @fediversereport @atomicpoet @jeffjarvis

     There are several practical problems for journalists.

     Twitter is much better as a content creator platform. There's more people, better virality, the support of algorithms and working search. It's a better collaborative platform - for readers, quote tweets allow better commenting on stories than replies; for reporters it allows them to provide more context to other tweets. It's where our sources are, which allows us to build rapport with people...

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     Fediverse Report (fediversereport@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 07:49:13 JST Fediverse Report

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     • Joe Uchill

     @JoeUchill @atomicpoet @jeffjarvis But that is a discussion about what tool allows you to best do your job in the current moment.

     What I'm getting at that theres a multimillion group of highly engaged people here that are very actively looking for content. One of the big problems new problems people have is not enough content on their timeline. That experience is absolutely unique, all other platforms you're fighting to be found in a sea of content. Here people are fighting to find you instead

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     Joe Uchill (joeuchill@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 07:49:14 JST Joe Uchill

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     @fediversereport @atomicpoet @jeffjarvis
     ...we need to be comfortable with us. It's a better platform to find and reach out to sources. It's easier to gauge the global conversation on Twitter - there's more of a zeitgeist. There's a uniform trending topics section that gets people on the same page about news stories. Off site content has more staying power (both due to the trending topics aggregation and the virality thing). It's easier to break community bubbles.

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     Joe Uchill (joeuchill@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 07:49:14 JST Joe Uchill

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     @fediversereport @atomicpoet @jeffjarvis

     If you want people to see the stuff you write, or get a better sense of what people know, or find and contact people who you need for stories, or see news as it breaks, Twitter is better suited to task.

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     Fediverse Report (fediversereport@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 07:51:55 JST Fediverse Report

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     • Joe Uchill

     @JoeUchill @atomicpoet @jeffjarvis I totally understand that Twitter is probably a better tool than the fediverse for a lot of people, in the current moment. But that discounts both the fact that things are very much changing, both Twitter and the fediverse, and its best to be proactive about that.

     It also misses that in the end, you want to get your content out to people, and that is so much easier here than on Twitter. Thats the opportunity that I'm talking about

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 10:47:02 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @atomicpoet "The fediverse will fail because big networks don't use it" -> "The fediverse will fail because big networks do use it." ?