Quick note to say I have spent a whole year now on mastodon, having loads of rewarding conversations with so many lovely and interesting people. Thanks for reading ❤️
@fulelo and thank you for your posts and interacting here.
I hope it encourages other journalists to dip their toes and leave commercial platforms that have no interest in their users, including journalists except for making money whatever the harm caused.
@markhughes I think many colleagues went to try out the (somewhat user friendlier) platforms like blue-sky or threads. It is a pity that we get so uneven and lost between all
Those are VC funded platforms is all they should need to know: great to start while sucking in users but eventually harmful and abusive if it makes them money.
Anyway, glad you decided to try this and hopefully will stay.
I believe though it is temporary and that fediverse, if it grows big enough will become a target for centralising exploitative capital. I look forward to peer-to-peer solutions, once they offer superior UX, eg #SafeNetwork
@markhughes I remember even a colleague 10 ys ago said how weird it is that we are all taking a private soc med platform for granted that could go up in smoke any time...
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