not sure I follow. we absolutely need reporters well paid to be knowledgeable on the subject and follow the latest reporting in order to do their journalism.
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Journalism is not about presenting “both sides” of an issue. -
Journalism is not about presenting “both sides” of an issue.I agree that effects are more relevant. it would be nice to know the likely effects of all possible policy choices but that's probably impossible, so I'd favor those most likely to happen, which usually comes down to popularity. but maybe reporting on an option that the reporter thinks is great could make it more popular. IDK.
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Journalism is not about presenting “both sides” of an issue.yes as the journalist understands it. and we should choose who to follow etc based on how well they do that. how often they end up being proven correct, not whether we agree with them.
but on some issues, the uncertainty lingers strongly. or it's a policy dispute that we want to understand the most widely held/supported perspectives on.
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WATCH: EFF’s @pluralistic joined Tim Wu on The New York Times’ Ezra Klein Show to discuss “Everything Wrong With the Internet and How to Fix It.”why isn't Tim (much less Ezra) on the fedi? the full episode is available on the podcast feed too.
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Western Civilization and values. -
I’ve been asked on TV hits and interviews lately to explain why decentralized social media is better, especially re: Mastodon.the magic of this place is that it gives the people all the power over what info, ideas and art gets attention. not governments or billionaire owners of media or corporate platforms. (not sure they'd want to hear that)
the problems with social media come down to the algos, not social media itself. that's what we're proving. the algos push a tabloid culture cause they know we'll pay attention to junk, even if we'd never share it. so they push the junk and our culture dets debased.
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Celebrities are becoming more reliant on the corporation than ever before.Celebrities are becoming more reliant on the corporation than ever before. Eventually being shunned by their platform algo will mean they don't even exist. Will they rebel and encourage their followers to help us build a world where humans decide what gets attention before they lose them?
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I think the whole fedi could learn something by thinking about the experience of the #forkiverse.I think the whole fedi could learn something by thinking about the experience of the #forkiverse. I need to go into these details eventually but they touch on all the culture stuff we've been struggling with forever.
https://pca.st/episode/474afe5a-239b-44c1-a5d4-17b4cdbf95ea?t=2895
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This will be the last #Mastodon post that will be bridged to #Bsky!what has never been public are their deliberations on how they plan to provide a ROI on the VC.
I think it's about using their runway to grow and displace AP as much as possible, so that AT can become the protocol for "decentralized" social media. then because of how their protocol works and the costs involved, bluesky becomes the Google of their social web. everything runs through them, even though people could technically use alternatives etc. then they enshittify. my guess anyway.
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I've found when I'm thinking "should I take this weird trollish remark seriously or just block them", I always regret giving the benefit of the doubt.is there any pattern to which servers they're using? maybe we need a class with examples and voting. "this reply comes off poorly but this means basically the same thing but isn't annoying." in the land of geeks, I'd bet more don't realize what they are doing than don't care.
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Is social media its own thing or is it an attention layer for the open web?Is social media its own thing or is it an attention layer for the open web? Is it mostly about these separate things we call posts, or should every piece of writing or audio or video be able to be boosted itself?
I think that's the divide between #ATproto and #ActivityPub. #bluesky wants to dominate a world of posts like Gmail dominates email etc. Social running on a protocol but one company decides most people's experience. Or should we give the public full control over what media goes viral?
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Should citizens of your country that live elsewhere have the right to vote?so you should be able to declare your home where you last lived in your origin country and get to vote there only imo.
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Should citizens of your country that live elsewhere have the right to vote?imo you vote in one place based on where your "home" is. I get that this can be complicated in some instances.
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Considering how popular the fediverse already is with at least some of the public institutions in Europe, this is a puzzling move.what anonymity do you have when creating a website? you have the same ability to post hate and misinfo that way. the only difference with decentralized social media is the boost. it's just a faster and easier way to spread that stuff than email or linking to it in your blog.
the problem is the bad shit plus the corporate algorithm. that it quickly figures out what vile stuff is triggering people and is able to push it out to millions and the profit incentive demands it.