Journalist says he finds it ‘surreal’ to have account on X suspended after writing critique of platform::The author’s account had over 100,000 followers and was around 14 years old, he said
Journalist says he finds it ‘surreal’ to have account on X suspended after writing critique of platform::The author’s account had over 100,000 followers and was around 14 years old, he said
First, I agree with what you’re saying here about the privacy issue.
The other side of that is that companies or even individual journalists could just spin up their own instance and not allow outsiders to sign up.
However, there needs to be a critical mass of engaged people. I don’t know what Mastodon’s engagement looks like but I can’t imagine it’s very high. With even the slightest barrier to entry beyond “sign up with your email address on our main site” there will never be as much engagement as a simpler platform. On top of that, a lot of news outlets consider hot takes on the social media site formerly known as Twitter to be news. So they embed dumb opinions from there in loads of “articles”.
It’s going to be a long road for them to leave and when they do it likely won’t be to join the Fediverse.
Edit: except possibly the BBC. Maybe if their trial pans out others would follow. We’ll see.