toot.community is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A worldwide Mastodon instance from The Netherlands. Run by digital enthusiasts, inviting everyone, everywhere to join us in the #fediverse.

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It is not good news that Mastodon usage has dropped after the initial surge. But it's understandable. Patience and persistence are needed, along with greater (it's coming) ease of use here.

Meanwhile, it's disgusting that journalists -- whom Musk attacked directly and is still in some cases banning from his increasingly right-wing propaganda machine -- have meekly gone back to Twitter.

In a way, it's not surprising. Which says a lot about Big Journalism in our era.

wired.com/story/the-mastodon-b

WIRED · The Mastodon Bump Is Now a SlumpBy Amanda Hoover
JJ Peterson

@dangillmor They don’t want to do journalism, they want to be social media influencers and/or book writers. Also, Twitter is a very safe place because it allows journos to lock elbows and defend each other in unison from any criticism by their followers, subscribers, viewers, and target book audience.