But what I don't understand is:
why is the New Statesman writing about mastodon?
http://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2017/04/mastodonsocial-why-does-every-new-twitter-fail
@sargoth the hot takes in that article are precious:
- The site [...] has already shut off registration due to “exceptionally high traffic” [facepalm]
- What is a Mastodon? [eye twitch]
- How do I pronounce it? [stronger eye twitch]
- Even if no one likes Twitter, plenty of us are addicted to it [shaking intensifies]
- My friends won't come on Mastodon if I'm not on Mastodon [takes brain out of skull, throws it on the wall]
@emmemaiuscola they sure didn't shy away from going those extra miles
@emmemaiuscola the one upside to this is that it makes me feel more competent in comparison
if this piece can fake it as serious news, then anything I can do can't be that much worse off
@sargoth yup, it's even more baffling that the motherboard.vice one she even quotes, and that one basically said "it's young therefore broken therefore will never be fixed. and even though that birdsite is The Worst, I miss it like oxygen"
tech journalism at its B E S T