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When I opened up Lemmy this morning I could not believe my eyes. The top story was a headline from Forbes stating:
« ‘Open Source And Ethical’ TikTok, WhatsApp And Instagram Alternatives Could Transform Social Media ».

The article mostly focused on and did a fairly good job explaining how works. But they spelled « Mastadon » over and over again with no links to it. Yikes.

B for the effort, but please editors do better!

forbes.com/sites/esatdedezade/

Forbes · ‘Open Source And Ethical’ TikTok, WhatsApp And Instagram Alternatives Could Transform Social MediaBy Esat Dedezade

@_elena great and not so great, it illustrates why we are in the political fascist mess we are in here right now with the main stream media…

Either they have no clue, no educated opinion or they simply don’t care and they are acting as if stupidity is a virtue.

Elena Rossini ⁂

@xs4me2 tangentially-related but it makes me a little sad that the news media would only acknowledge the existence of the Fediverse when there is money involved.

I'm thrilled for the success of Pixelfed's Kickstarter campaign but Dan has been working on it tirelessly for 7 YEARS. Hello news media, why didn't you mention Pixelfed before?

Aw capitalism (ew)

@_elena @xs4me2 In defence, I don't think that's the reason. It's being reported on now because the official apps are publicly available having been in beta-limbo forever. Following their release, exposure on TikTok and insta resulted in user numbers rocketing. Tech media began to report on it, and now news media, as a result of Pixelfed entering the conversation. News media aren't likely to report on a beta app used by a relatively negligible number of people.

@Quicky @_elena

The problem is, it is not big news nor big politics, while the influence of social media and its weaponization now is. And no-one saw that coming. He who has the biggest megaphone has the attention nowadays… that is why democratic open source alternatives are so important.

Concerning the content, the span is in the now, we are more and more living in the moment… same goes for the news-media, its the clicks… its the hype…

@_elena Ew neoliberal capitalism indeed… sad.