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 (DIR) Post #B52ScjcLvXG8J05kWG by Shrigglepuss@godforsaken.website
       2022-12-24T10:27:30Z
       
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       Hot take: Journalists already have websites and blogs and newspapers and magazines and TV and podcasts and newsletters to report in, is it essential that should cross into social media as a publishing platform when social media is (or should be?) inherently a social space and not a publishing space?Imagine a public forum of old (pre-internet), you'd expect people to bring articles within that space from outside to discuss, not a big newspaper rack at the centre to direct the conversation right?
       
 (DIR) Post #B52ScrbwCxgH61xWz2 by Shrigglepuss@godforsaken.website
       2022-12-24T10:31:28Z
       
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       I'm not 100% against news publishing here, if each news org have their own instance to block/follow accordingly btw, I just really don't think it's the be all and end all if it doesn't take off here. I don't see the problem, if we're here to hang out together and not have stuff randomply thrown at us all the time (often intaling stressful emotional whiplash, and from people with little regard to content warnings etc at that)
       
 (DIR) Post #B52SczOPH9bvENgq0G by Shrigglepuss@godforsaken.website
       2022-12-24T10:37:46Z
       
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       What I'd rather see is an RSS renascence, so social media can happen here in the social realm, and news consumed in the way more appropriate purpose-built space of feed readers. That separation is *way* healthier and works better for all involved surely?
       
 (DIR) Post #B52Sd7NdZtkU0JOKum by Shrigglepuss@godforsaken.website
       2022-12-24T14:37:23Z
       
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       Also, as I'm sure we all know: Using social media as a publishing platform in combination with piss-poor moderation has been one of the key grounds the "culture war" is nurtured on. The nastiest voices rise to the top (and find each other!), under "news" posts penned to be as emotionally charged and engagement-pandering as possible. 1/2
       
 (DIR) Post #B52SdFNDrKAcnLG7NY by Shrigglepuss@godforsaken.website
       2022-12-24T14:37:30Z
       
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       Do we need that to seep into every corner of the social media space? Do we even need to "engage" with news beyond consuming it? It's an "absolutely fucking not" from me.Newsorgs shouldn't be facilitating the "conversation" (more often than not just willfully hosting reems of hate speech to sell ads) 2/2