Summary
The Guardian announced it will stop posting from its main editorial accounts on X, citing the platform’s “toxic” environment and Elon Musk’s influence in shaping political discourse, particularly around the recent U.S. election.
The British newspaper expressed concerns over increasing far-right content and disinformation on X, which it says Musk has enabled.
Although articles can still be shared by users, The Guardian intends to focus on promoting its journalism through other platforms, noting that X now plays a “diminished role” in its outreach efforts.
BTW, the author of this article still advertises its Twitter account 🙃
Inb4 The Guardian will have a presence on Bluesky but not the Fediverse 🙃
The Guardian is welcome on Lemmy anytime.
And my Mastodon!
And my axe!
Does Mastadon have customizable/sharable feeds?
I’m not sure what you mean. There is a list feature much like the one that existed on Twitter, but since I don’t use it, I don’t know if you can share lists.
Edit: I tried the List feature and it does not work like on Twitter (at least the way I remember it): it only can only contain users you already follow and is private. It acts more like a feed with only a subset of your follows.
I mean like on Bluesky you can make feeds such as this one someone made that features posts linking to free gift articles.
Oh no, but it’s a neat feature, I wish Mastodon had it!
It’s a killer feature imo but microblog services in general aren’t really my thing
Just came to that conclusion now?
Better late than never. Great move.
Barn door, horse, etc.
Mastodon, get shiny. This foss clunkiness is hamstringing you.
Seems like a great time for some corporate cash to show up with no strings attached in this hyper-driven race for a digital copy of our thoughts
Send them a pull request with your ideas?
Same
The Texas Observer and other newspapers have their own Mastodon instance. Even Donald Trump’s Truth Social is its own instance. If you have the news, they will come to you!
BBC did, but it’s seemingly inactive now.
Article about it: https://www.bbc.com/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub
A little late, but yeah, der, obviously.
Pretty ironic since this is from the UK Guardian under Kath Viner’s editing which has played a key part in fanning the flames of the culture war.
