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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 28-May-2026 17:39:38 JST Aral Balkan

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     Emeritus Prof Christopher May (chrismayla6@zirk.us)'s status on Thursday, 28-May-2026 17:39:39 JST Emeritus Prof Christopher May

     Disappointingly, but all to predictably Jonathan Liew exercise a long critique of X (formally Twitter), but concludes that the 'utopian idea of the digital town square is dead for ever' without even mentioning Mastodon, which while not perfect (seem to me) to get quite a long way towards that ideal....

     We've noted before how (wilfully?) blind to Mastodon mainstream journalists are, so we shouldn't be surprised, just disappointed (again).

     #mastodon #SocialMedia
     https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/28/still-on-x-ask-yourself-why-platform-twitter-malign-actors-misinformation

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     Schrödinger's Prat (rhodium103@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-May-2026 17:41:04 JST Schrödinger's Prat

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     I remember a flurry of journalists coming a few years ago. Many derided the lack of quoting, lack of deep text search, and how they couldn't instantly get 100k followers. This interfered with doing their job, which is apparently to mine social media for free content to write up while holding court over the mortals with far fewer followers.

     Not all. Obviously. But I'm quite happy for that particular class of journalism to stay away.