Re:Poll: Are you going to leave Twitter after Musk's acquisi...
by rglullis on Monday April 25, 2022 @07:31PM
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> The best way to send that message would be to stop breathlessly covering the various goings-on on Twitter.
Reporters are going to report on what brings readers, and one of the most upsetting things about the press nowadays is this idea that they should help "shape the narrative". If the press is truly independent, they could and should report on what happens at Twitter.
In any case, your idea and mine are orthogonal.
> Attempting to clone Twitter
I used Mastodon in the example, but it wouldn't be a twitter clone. This is not what ActivityPub is.
The point of adopting ActivityPub for them would be simply to be able to claim that they can be in control of their own discourse and that they do not depend on Big Tech and their social networks.
> They also didn't try to compete with, say, Ma Bell or Clear Channel,
Is not that they would do it to "compete", they could do it simply to stop contributing to the problem that they are so frequently writing about. And it certainly requires infinitely less resources to run an AP server than to create a phone network. I can profitably run a Mastodon server for the NYT for less than $500/month.
Reporters are going to report on what brings readers, and one of the most upsetting things about the press nowadays is this idea that they should help "shape the narrative". If the press is truly independent, they could and should report on what happens at Twitter.
In any case, your idea and mine are orthogonal.
> Attempting to clone Twitter
I used Mastodon in the example, but it wouldn't be a twitter clone. This is not what ActivityPub is.
The point of adopting ActivityPub for them would be simply to be able to claim that they can be in control of their own discourse and that they do not depend on Big Tech and their social networks.
> They also didn't try to compete with, say, Ma Bell or Clear Channel,
Is not that they would do it to "compete", they could do it simply to stop contributing to the problem that they are so frequently writing about. And it certainly requires infinitely less resources to run an AP server than to create a phone network. I can profitably run a Mastodon server for the NYT for less than $500/month.