Pause and think about this.
Since November, journalists have been cynically dismissing the Fediverse, saying that journalists cannot subsist here.
Well, the Fediverse may have given @TexasObserver a lifeline! So much of the donations from the GoFundMe have come from the Fediverse — many commenters saying they discovered @TexasObserver from their Mastodon server.
We, the Fediverse, just might save a storied institution of journalism!