Post #1151131
2026-04-06 13:34 UTC
Replies (7)
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@Haste@mastodon.social 2026-04-06 13:37
@odd@mstdn.social I’m not sure. I wasn’t on Twitter in the early days. By the time I got there it already sucked. lol I did get to experience invite-only Bluesky, but I can’t really comment on it from a reporting standpoint because I only used it to shitpost. Which was very community oriented, but totally devoid of professional value. Mastodon really is the only place I’ve had any interest in my work and I just assume that’s cause I’m pals with folks that live in Seattle here.
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@oberstenzian@mastodon.social 2026-04-06 14:32
@odd @Haste it never was a two way anything. It was just a bunch of wanna be celebrities trying to pull an emotional vampire routine 140 characters at a time.
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@nitrml@tyrol.social 2026-04-06 16:48
@odd in my experience: Basically after trying to interact with various journalists on Twitter, you'd know which ones were there to actually participate in a public discussions, which ones would only reply to their "mutuals" while scoffing at everyone else, and which ones only posted to self-promote and didnt engage at all. @Haste
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@dalias@hachyderm.io 2026-04-06 17:33
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/116358958213462520 @odd @Haste Early and even late Twitter was so much better from what "journalists" do on "social media" now.
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@dasgrueneblatt@wien.rocks 2026-04-06 17:46
@odd @Haste There's definitely situations like that here now. Really nice, respectful fruitful discussions.
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@phwolfe@scicomm.xyz 2026-04-06 18:53
@odd @Haste Old journalist here. Early Twitter was really good for getting those two-way exchanges that made your reporting stronger. But that didn't last, and being in those spaces became increasingly caustic. I quit FB in 2018 and Twitter in 2021. But even in the beginning of for-profit social media, you could feel the shift as a journalist--we were unpaid workers for all those walled gardens. But the problem is, loads of people get their "news" on social media. Journalism is community work, and really good, independent journalism is part of the resistance. But when your community is there looking for news on the for-profit socials, it's a huge problem. Mastodon is one of the few places where people have a little more understanding of this framework and have taken some affirmative steps toward fixing it. Perhaps it needs to be said: very few people get into journalism because it pays well. I was never paid very much. Most of us believe in the importance of this community work. Thousands of journalists have been laid off in the past two decades. No one came to help us. But no one working in the business was surprised. The old business model doesn't work anymore. Those remaining know that. Chasing clicks is just the last few drowning men grasping at straws.
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@craignicol@glasgow.social 2026-04-07 11:27
@odd @Haste scientists, yes. Journalists was very dependent on where they were from. Plenty of old school paper journalists would talk to each other and politicians and ignore the plebs, whereas the digital journalists often were in the discussion and feeding both ways so that their pieces became the historic record of the discussion.