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Chris Trottier

Wired says is the space for “the Internet elite”.

So what they’re saying is that is for status seekers and clout chasers.

You know, the spot for media gatekeepers to pad their articles with social media posts that say something to the effect of, “This!” and “This!” and “You, sir, just won the Internet!”

wired.com/story/gadget-lab-pod

@fediversenews

I don’t want journalism to be taken over by AI, but the task of compiling tweets for reactionary takes on whatever scandal could totally be done with AI—and that would be a big improvement.

@atomicpoet @fediversenews Elite gonna elite, societies have “social scenes” since Nile River Valley civilizations were a thing.

@atomicpoet @fediversenews I don’t wanna be anywhere near the “elite” unless it’s to make them uncomfortable.

@atomicpoet @fediversenews Also, left unsaid: “rest assured, invoice-paying customers, we will maintain fidelity to the normal dark patterns you need to market #utopitalism products and services so effectively.”

@felip Yep, nothing of substance was lost.

@atomicpoet I think the issue there is that the definition of journalism has become a broad, and almost meaningless title, self-selected by social media 'commentators' and handed out to interns...
Took me years to be formally titled as a 'reporter' on a publication, and reactionary takes required interviewing experts etc, rather than embedding tweets

@atomicpoet corporate owned news media has been algorithm based for a long time. It's not much of a switch

@atomicpoet in fact, we could do without it altogether.

@atomicpoet @fediversenews if it’s only for the “elite” it will never take off. You have to have some unwashed masses to make money off the backs of

@atomicpoet @fediversenews ugh, in which case they are welcome to it.

@atomicpoet @fediversenews hold up though. Is the verb for posting there "skeeting" because that's gonna be a no from me.

@atomicpoet @fediversenews you have to ask yourself: is this going to drain high profile large-follower count viral content creators from Twitter? I think this is a GoodThing™️ - these people were never going to join the fediverse anyway.

@atomicpoet @fediversenews I feel like one of the things the larger accounts missed on twitter is if things were not to their satisfaction (and sometimes justifiably so) they could at Jack and get action.

Plus they were the products and thus promoted as opposed to participants in a dialogue. This is closer to the nature of our larger capitalist culture and it, I imagine, feels reassuring. I think many probably see BlueSky as a place where that will happen again.

@atomicpoet @fediversenews ah elitism, what we all need from social media.