Post by @mjfuhlhage@mastodon.social

2022-12-17 15:23 UTC

#Journalism profs: Let&#39;s coordinate about which platform to switch our class-related #socialMedia assignments to. I&#39;m leaning toward #Mastodon because #Twitter having an oligarch owner who shakes the antfarm for attention isn&#39;t conducive to learning and that behavior shouldn&#39;t be rewarded. We&#39;re between semesters, so this feels like a good time for this discussion.

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@raindropworks@newsie.social 2022-12-17 15:29

@mjfuhlhage@mastodon.social That's what I'm doing. I made an announcement yesterday or the day before there that at this point, all my new news stuff will be on here, but I'll still comment and such on the bird app. The problem I have is I still have less than 10% of my followers here as I do there, and even of those I'd say half of them are unique to Mastodon. So the greatly diminished audience is a concern that I'm trying to address.

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@MediaLawProf@mastodon.social 2022-12-17 15:30

@mjfuhlhage@mastodon.social I really struggled with this teaching my sports reporting class last semester, when so much of the business including live game coverage includes Twitter. I can’t in good conscience suggest anyone use that platform anymore.

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@robinbrenizer@home.social 2022-12-17 16:42

@mjfuhlhage@mastodon.social if I owned the NYTimes I’d set up my own server today. NYTimes.social and let subscribers join. It would be great! Posting wordles, comments to news stories etc and build brand loyalty.

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