@_chris_real Hey! Our journalism is free to access. And I'm a decades-long part of the open social web movement - Mastodon is very important to me indeed. I didn't mean to offend with my framing.
We're on a funding drive because it's a non-profit (like other public media outlets). Nobody pays to read what we do.
And others may be covering it, but it was our investigation that broke the story.