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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 58 points 1 week ago (4 children)

They could spin up a Mastodon instance, but given how lousy their UK editorial department is with TERFs, it would be justifiably blocked for transphobia.

[–] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I really enjoy quite a bit of the Guardians coverage. Their staff editorial department is often infuriating to the point I often wonder if they actually work for a different news agency.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Their US and Australian divisions are solid. The UK one varies, and has some decent people, but also has a persistent infestation of TERF/SWERFs. A few high-profile ones have left after their comments became irreconcilable with the paper’s ostensibly liberal/progressive line, but you still get regular Observer opinion columns about pronoun-mongers sexualising our children or other scare campaigns. There’s a rumour that the editor, Kath Viner, is herself a TERF and personally protecting them, though I haven’t seen any evidence one way or the other.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

the paper’s ostensibly liberal/progressive line

They're aligned with the Liberal party, which is a centrist party which is seldom if ever progressive. The Guardian does put up some articles by progressives, on occasion, but they also publish articles by conservatives. When the Labour Party was led by Corbyn, the Guardian was consistently critical of Labour policy and bought into the rightwing press's phony accusations that Corbyn was antisemitic. Overall, the Guardian's core politics are those of the metropolitan bourgeoisie, as can also be seen by their lifestyle and media commentary, as well as their general smugness. And on economic matters, their coverage is utterly useless. On that, the Economist and the FT are far superior, despite their occasionally odious politics in their editorial pages.

I still read the Graun, though, since the rest of the British press is far, far worse.

[–] wewbull 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I really wish running your own mastodon was as accepted as running your own email server. There'll be no "blue check mark" problem if your company runs the server and only provides accounts to employees.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This seems like a win-win scenario for everyone involved.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think the problem is that ActivityPub doesn't scale as well as email does thanks to the constant need to update and cache data from each instance one of your users interacts with.

[–] wewbull 1 points 5 days ago

So more how newsgroups fell, because ISPs didn't want to run the servers due to storage.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

That's exactly right.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They don't need to do any of that. Just make an account on any instance and go forth.

If you can leave X, you can change instances if needed in the future, too.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tbh that would put a lot of strain on someone else’s server. It’s not like they’re a small business that can’t afford a dedicated server, and each journalist could have a dedicated handle

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 1 week ago

Pretty sure if they joined mastadon.social, they'd be fine. Plus the clout for mastadon would be woth the orgs investment if it was needed, though their infrastructure would likely be fine. We're not talking millions of viewers.

[–] moe90@feddit.nl -3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

tbh Bluesky also a nice alternative as well.

[–] Nadru@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bluesky is at risk to be bought by another Musk in the future

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

how many twitters can one man sell to an elmo?

[–] Nadru@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

We'll have to wait and see, at least one for now ;)

[–] Intergalactic@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

BlueSky can be bought and influenced. No thanks.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

BlueSky has already received funding from venture capital, and so will need to find a way to monetise its user base. Once enough people depend on the site for their social connections and friend circles, the promise of decentralisation will be quietly removed, APIs will be restricted (as on Reddit/Xitter), terms of service updated to ban circumvention, and the user-controlled algorithms modified to deliver your eyeballs to the advertisers and your data to data brokers, and before long, it’ll be an Instagram-style slot machine, where you mostly see ads and AI pink-slime, but keep pulling the lever in case there’s another update you care about in there somewhere.

[–] Intergalactic@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Certainly, this aligns closely with the stance I express in a blog post scheduled for publication on Medium today in opposition to BlueSky. Users will likely be disheartened when BlueSky essentially replicates the characteristics of 2019-2020 Twitter. Ads suck. Centralization sucks. Millionaires and billionaires running these platforms for profit suck.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 points 1 week ago

You mean Future-X?