For anyone who's come over to the #Fediverse from #Twitter: One of the first things I did when coming here was seek out a bunch of #journalists to follow, so my TL could mimic the "current events" feed. Here's a curated Google Sheet listing over a thousand journalists who've made accounts over here, who cover all sorts of things from cycling to sports to breaking news. Use it to help populate your #timeline, #share broadly for exposure.
@chemoelectric@colemankane sadly, this won’t bring any Canadian news. Our government has just passed a law (the Online News Act, aka Bill C-18) to force revenue sharing between platforms and Canadian news sources. Meta and Google have opted to not link to any Canadian news sites as a result. https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6894029
@colemankane is there a way to follow a hashtag in the mastodon app? I can do it in tusky, but it seems silly to have another app just to allow me to follow #journalists (for example).
@colemankane There over 1300 names on that spreadsheet. I started to wade in, quite enthused ... I followed three and then realized that two of them are inactive here. It's a good resource, but would require a fair amount of time to select journalists of interest and then check for inactivity (all done within Masto's two-step foreign-follow process).
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