Interesting piece by @mathewi about the culture clash between journalists accustomed to Twitter & existing Mastodon instances. He reports about 45 servers are blocking people on journa.host, which I was seriously considering joining or shifting towards: https://www.cjr.org/analysis/journalists-want-to-recreate-twitter-on-mastodon-mastodon-is-not-into-it.php What do you think? How should members of the media be approaching participating or reporting on the #fediverse?
@digiphile @mathewi Some people/instances want to publicize their activity and will welcome journalists (mstdn.science, genome.social, etc.). Other people just want a more private experience. My main concern with these 'more private' instances is that people may act as though they really are private and expose themselves to reputational or even legal harm -- while assuming that by blocking some journalists they have eliminated that risk, when they've only reduced it by a tiny amount (if at all).
