TRUMP IS BACK, Elon Unbans Veritas AND MORE

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leftists getting banned from Mastidon for being racists

 

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NYT: Journalist-run Mastodon social media as impressive as you'd imagine​

The New York Times took a closer look at the new Mastodon instant-messaging platform to which reporters of all stripes — but mainly progressives — have recently decamped. The selling point for the service is its decentralization as well as its collaborative moderation, at least theoretically. In practice, however, it looks more like a confused mess where “journalists” eat their own rather than practice tolerance, including at the Journa.host node funded in large part by the J-school at CUNY:

Journa.host received $12,000 in funding from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY’s Tow-Knight Center, which has been used so far to pay server and domain registration fees.” …
And some of the relative calm Mr. Davidson sees may also be a function of journa.host’s narrow user base. It’s a server just for journalists — or more accurately, the people the administrators of journa.host deem to be journalists. That has led to accusations (on Twitter, where else?) that the server is an attempt by the moderators to “gatekeep their peers.”
In response, Mr. Weiss said that being denied entry to journa.host doesn’t currently prevent access to journa.host content, which users of many other Mastodon servers can see.
Regardless, any attempt to turn journa.host into a walled garden, free from the issues of Twitter, is probably doomed to fail: The conflicts that have at times inflamed Twitter have already caused problems for Mr. Davidson and his team.

To wit, pay heed to the cautionary story of podcaster Mike Pesca of “The Gist,” who had the temerity to link to … the New York Times. Last week, the NYT reported on rising health concerns over the use of puberty blockers, which Pesca linked and described as “careful, thorough reporting.” (The NYT was happy to note this, of course.)

Let’s let Pesca tell the rest of the story — which it turned out he could only do on Twitter:









But wait — it gets better! Parker Molloy’s fellow journalists also gave her the boot, although she’s not terribly put out by it either:

Also on Saturday, Ms. Molloy appeared on a different Mastodon server, and announced that she, too, had been suspended from journa.host for her posts.
“Did it break their rules over there? Yes, so they were certainly in their rights to suspend me from there,” she wrote. And then, in a subsequent post she wrote, “I mostly just want to be left alone.” (Later, Ms. Molloy posted an apology to Mr. Pesca.)

 

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Journalists Go Hunger Games on Each Other and I Can't Stop Laughing​

Woke Journalists and the Transphobic Mastodon Server​

Big-name journalists — and many you’ve never heard of — loved their gatekeeping role on Twitter. They decided what you were permitted to know, and Twitter played along, happy to enforce the Mean Girls’ rules on their behalf.

But freedom of speech has returned to Twitter under Elon Musk, and journos are desperate for a new digital meeting place where they’re the Mean Girls clique once more.

So they turned to Mastodon, a totally Woke (and decentralized) social media platform, where NPR’s Adam Davidson set up the journa.host server for like-minded wokesters. According to NYT, there are something like 2,000 members who have to prove who they are in order to join. “Journa.host received $12,000 in funding from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY’s Tow-Knight Center, which has been used so far to pay server and domain registration fees,” reported the Times.

“Indeed, at times, journa.host looks a lot like Twitter, just without all the non-journalists and most of the nastiness.”

 

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