For better or worse, the past weeks has mastodon becoming a proper source of breaking news for me. This happened for me w/ twitter during the boston marathon bombing. It's often not direct sources using mastodon, but people reposting direct sources (originally from twitter, or IG, or others).
So I'm glad that we have an open protocol that can bypass traditional news media to show what's actually happening in real time, but I'll also miss scrolling through mostly cats and moss instead of doom.
