• bear_delune@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Tech “journalists” have no idea how to speak about Mastodon or the fediverse.

    They seem to think that unless something has billions of users, it’s dead. They can’t even comprehend how people could prefer a smaller more selective userbase

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      1 year ago

      Yeah tech journalist don’t seem to have any critical thinking skills. They praise any technology coming from a big tech company. I have only seen one wired article mentioning the fedivere

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        1 year ago

        They’ve just tied their careers to the profits of tech and have lost all passion they have for the nerdy hobby of their youth

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      Many “tech journalists” are about as old as Facebook.

      When they started using devices, the iPhone had been around for years, and the only discussion platforms they ever knew where centralized platforms with millions and millions of users run by mega corporations. In their personal life experience, Reddit has always just existed, they’ve never known a world without YouTube, Snapchat is what they used when they were little kids, TikTok had been around long enough that’s it’s considered an established media outlet.

      They’ve never seen a Usenet group, they’ve never had accounts on phpbb forums. Choosing a smaller platform with a more selective userbase just doesn’t exist in their reality.