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   FinchHaven (finchhaven@sfba.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 22:38:01 JST FinchHaven

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   • Amgine

   @amgine

   Yeah, Newsmast is a content aggregator

   Search "newsmast" and look at the profiles to see what they cover

   They sucked one of my posts into one of their feeds and published it strictly on the basis of the hashtag I'd used

   I've since blocked them all

   #Fediverse #Newsmast

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     Amgine (amgine@mstdn.ca)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 22:38:02 JST Amgine

     ykw? Newsmast claims to be curated lists. They fairly clearly are not, but instead simply cherry picking topics most likely to rile people up and trying to give them more attention.

     The same model used by Twitter, Facebook and its ilk.

     The #fediverse is not a place I go to be riled up. It is a place I go to talk over the back fence with my online neighbours.

     So I blocked them. And I think I will be doing more of that.