I just don’t get how a newspaper with a freaking comments section doesn’t understand the risk inherent with a social media website. If you break it down, a text-based comments section has many of the risks of a Mastodon server—people can share all manner of things. And worse, it’s actually centralized.
If everyone was as risk-averse as the FT comes off in this article, we would not have any creations of note.
They know. Some editor saw the term "Mastadon" (or whatever other keywords) was trending and decided they needed to get some content up. Stuff like this is often content for the sake of content.
If everyone was as risk-averse, laws would be either much more lenient or the internet would flourish in other countries.
I don't get why newspapers don't use Mastodon as a standard for their comment sections. Social networks are all about credibility. By moderating their users and requiring a fee, newspapers could become the service for credible accounts and reclaim the social network space from Facebook.
I absolutely agree. I have said that federated social media is a great opportunity to put the genie back in the bottle and localize social media to some degree. The problem is that this is the mindset we’re up against.
Again, the newspaper assuredly did all the homework around building policies around moderating social media decades ago. They just aren’t putting two and two together.
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I just don’t get how a newspaper with a freaking comments section doesn’t understand the risk inherent with a social media website. If you break it down, a text-based comments section has many of the risks of a Mastodon server—people can share all manner of things. And worse, it’s actually centralized.
If everyone was as risk-averse as the FT comes off in this article, we would not have any creations of note.
They know. Some editor saw the term "Mastadon" (or whatever other keywords) was trending and decided they needed to get some content up. Stuff like this is often content for the sake of content.
If everyone was as risk-averse, laws would be either much more lenient or the internet would flourish in other countries.
I don't get why newspapers don't use Mastodon as a standard for their comment sections. Social networks are all about credibility. By moderating their users and requiring a fee, newspapers could become the service for credible accounts and reclaim the social network space from Facebook.
I absolutely agree. I have said that federated social media is a great opportunity to put the genie back in the bottle and localize social media to some degree. The problem is that this is the mindset we’re up against.
Again, the newspaper assuredly did all the homework around building policies around moderating social media decades ago. They just aren’t putting two and two together.