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   Dan Gillmor (dangillmor@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 15:10:34 JST Dan Gillmor

   CNN's generally (but not always) Reliable Sources newsletter expounds at length on TikTok and possible alternatives without noting the surge of use at PixelFed.

   Big Journalism seems adamant that the fediverse either doesn't exist or lacks critical mass, both of which notions are bogus.

   https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1736947657251354768d34c91/raw?utm_source=cnn_Reliable+Sources+%E2%80%93+Jan.+15+2025&utm_medium=email&bt_ee=hjMzKzEh7RHzt7iB9E0Dav4WKjIDMNGnITsZXsNLhIY%3D&bt_ts=1736947657253

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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 17:15:10 JST jwz

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     • Mudd ~: :blinking_cursor:

     @Muddobbers @dangillmor I think it's simpler that that. It's not the owners behind this, it's the writers. The journalists do not get fellated and lionized here the way they do on the corporate social media sites. They do not get the immediate elevated status they have come to believe they deserve, just for publishing listicle round-ups of "here's what people are saying on twitter" and calling that writing. Here, they're just punters. So this does not exist.

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     Mudd ~: :blinking_cursor: (muddobbers@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 17:15:11 JST Mudd ~: :blinking_cursor:

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     @dangillmor

     The pessimist in me says they don't want to acknowledge any venues that they can't later try to manipulate an algorithm to control who sees what

     jwz and Peter Krefting repeated this.
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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 18:41:49 JST jwz

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     • Mudd ~: :blinking_cursor:

     @codinghorror @Muddobbers @dangillmor Yeah but if I had just said "almost all journalists are lazy hacks" it wouldn't have sounded as deep, and I get paid by the word.

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     Jeff Atwood (codinghorror@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 18:41:50 JST Jeff Atwood

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     • Mudd ~: :blinking_cursor:

     @jwz @Muddobbers @dangillmor centralization is simpler: easy to understand, easy to measure, easy to "monetize", also easy to write about. Decentralization is a far more complicated and messy process, but can also survive long beyond "turns out, our dictator needed some therapy" .. and evolve into something greater over time.