Mastodon, on social media Alternative to Twitter, media critics and Twitter CEO Elon Musk have reportedly become the source of self-amusing woke infighting and journalistic “gatekeeping.”
Several prominent figures announced they would move to Mastodon in protest after Musk began implementing new policies on the site, including reinstating banned accounts such as former President Trump. As more journalists joined the site, there were more reports of users being blocked, attacked and outright banned for political reasons.
In one case, former Slate podcaster Mike Pesca was suspended for verified journalists called journa.host after contacting a popular Mastodon “instance” or server. New York Times story about the adverse effects of puberty blockers on children. Transgender blogger Parker Malloy attacked Pesca and complained that “anti-trans content” was not removed from the network. According to the New York Times, Pesca was soon informed that “he had been fired for referring to Ms. Mollo as an ‘activist,'” which he denied.
Several journalists switched to Mastodon in response to Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter.
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“I had to join Mastodon to be called a bigot by @ParkerMolloy because I said a well-reported NYT article complicates the common claim about puberty blockers. Looks like a big difference from Twitter,” Pesca tweeted on Saturday.
Malloy was later suspended from journa.host for calling transgender journalist Evan Urquhart a “bootlicker”.
With several similar stories of self-proclaimed moderators making arbitrary decisions, Twitter users have joked that Mastodon’s “hall monitor” has become a lair of journalists.
“One of the many irritating things about Mastodon is that it allows status-chasing journalists to judge whether their peers have enough authority or are useful for advancing others’ careers,” digital media consultant Heidi N. Moore tweeted on Sunday. allows to do”. article at journal.host.
Nate Silver, founder of FiveThirtyEight, responded: “The Mastodon hall monitor looks like a honey trap for personality types. Honestly, if Elon moved all his hall monitors to the Mastodon, that might be his greatest contribution to the betterment of humanity.”
Musk himself responded to Silver’s tweet, “What could be more fun than a social network made entirely of living room monitors!?”
In a separate tweet, he said, “I hope all the judges’ hall monitors stay on other platforms – please, I beg you.”
Many on the left are sounding the alarm about Elon Musk taking over Twitter.
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“Mastodon is the hellhole Twitter always wanted it to be,” joked Twitter user Comfortably Smug.
Journalist Glenn Greenwald tweeted that “At Mastodon – the dark haven where liberal journalists flee for fear of free speech – they are already banning each other for the most trivial infractions, even if they don’t understand it. A laboratory to study how censorship-happy rats behave.”
And Jesse Singal, host of the Blocked and Reported podcast, said, “I was shocked to see that the kinder, gentler Twitter is just as full of drama.”[T]her meltdown really reinforces all my pre-existing ideas about this whole censored crew. Let them make an example of the dumb Mastodon and leave us alone.”
“Mastodon is already a [colossal] failure, all wakes alert and stop each other,” researcher Eli David wrote.
“Mastodon is hell. And it’s the kind of hell where every moderator can read your DMs and if they think you’re talking behind your back, you’ll get banned. It’s the opposite of Twitter, where people can openly make fun of @elonmusk , but no. get banned for that,” said journalist Ian Miles Cheong.
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Several journalists and media pundits offered “final” tweets at the end of last week, believing that Twitter would be shut down due to Musk’s policies and mass layoffs. CBS News even announced on Friday that it would He stopped using Twitter because of “uncertainty”. The media outlet returned to the account less than 48 hours later.
Billionaire industrialist Elon Musk took over Twitter in late October and promptly fired several top executives.
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However, some journalists continue to defend Mastodon as a viable option. New York Times reporter Joseph Bernstein reported that many members claim the site is like Twitter without the “filth”.
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“Most members of Journa.host use the service no differently than Twitter, sometimes posting the same text to each platform at the same time,” Bernstein wrote. “Indeed, sometimes journa.host is a lot like Twitter, without the non-journalists and most of the nastiness.”
