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   Tony Webster (tony@mastodon.tonywebster.com)'s status on Sunday, 18-Dec-2022 05:32:13 JST Tony Webster

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   Constructive things to say to journalists: join Mastodon, encourage your audience to have their conversations here, report on Mastodon, add Mastodon to your news org bio, make a video explaining how to use Mastodon, ask lawmakers if they will be joining Mastodon
   Not helpful: You are a fascist just like Elon Musk for not immediately deleting your Twitter and giving up the audience you spent 15 years building. It’s all or nothing, right now.

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     Tony Webster (tony@mastodon.tonywebster.com)'s status on Sunday, 18-Dec-2022 05:32:14 JST Tony Webster

     As annoying as it is, the reality is that followers provide independence. If a reporter has a following, they can be more independent against corporate media power. Demanding reporters “delete their Twitter” is to cede to corporations, who will never leave Twitter. A better start to this would be to encourage journalists to join Mastodon *too* to build and diversify their audience, and to get them to report on Mastodon itself to get more folks here.

     Nicholas Sarwark repeated this.