Fediblock, journalism
After some consideration, I've suspended journa.host from the server I run (not with this account). There's quite a lot of decent people signed up there, but also at least one prominent right-winger (The National Review's Jonah Goldberg), and I can't risk it.
Also, reporters mining social media for fodder without the authors' knowledge or consent is a plague on every other social media platform, and I think fedi should nip it in the bud.
Fediblock, journalism, update
Extremely unimpressed that I was quoted without my knowledge or consent, ABOUT being quoted without knowledge or consent, in the recent CJR piece about the backlash to journa.host. I'm not sure if it would be better or worse if the author had added an actual link to my post.
The author also links to a Kiwifarms-associated scraper tool used to see which instances a given instance is blocked by. (The same one the qoto guy used to mass-email a bunch of admins asking to be unblocked.) Classy!
P. S. Matthew, my website is in my bio. My contact information is there. As are links to the actual local journalism I've done over the years. The call is coming from inside the house Matthew. Okay that's all.
re: Fediblock, journalism, update
@nev fwiw this is also a thing now. https://twitter.com/DaveLeeFT/status/1593421042239709184
it's more about providing verification
