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1. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2018 11:35:52 EST Annah
   A lot of Mastodon's success comes from spending money to have so-called Tech journalists give it sumptuous review blow jobs.
   1. deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2018 12:58:23 EST deutrino

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      @maiyannah Giving money? Really?

      1. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2018 12:59:48 EST Annah

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         @deutrino Twitter doesn't let you run ads for free, you know.
         1. deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2018 13:25:49 EST deutrino

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            @maiyannah Sure, but did somebody involved with Mastodon pay for articles about it? My understanding is that Twitter did a particularly dense cluster of dumb shit last April, there was a big influx to Mastodon, and enough social media journalist types caught wind of it that a couple fairly well known ones wrote an article, causing many of the coattail riders to also write articles. So there was a big flash in the pan and then they lost interest again.

            1. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2018 13:27:41 EST Annah

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               @deutrino You think the tech journalists did those articles (where they couldn't even describe Mastodon accurately even in the context of positive spin) out of the goodness of their heart?
               
               I wish I had your niavete.
               1. Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2018 13:38:22 EST Verius

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                  @maiyannah @deutrino Considering tech journalists I'd consider "out of the emptiness of their cranial cavity" an option as well. More seriously it could also be a type of virtue signalling by journo's given how Masto likes to present itself as progressive.
                  1. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2018 13:41:27 EST Annah

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                     @verius @deutrino Oh, there was definitely an aspect of "bandwagoning" but you still need the first spark.
                     1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2018 19:53:48 EST clacke

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                        @maiyannah @verius @deutrino The first spark was Show HN.
               2. deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2018 13:44:17 EST deutrino

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                  @maiyannah These writers are as driven by the web version of the 24 hour news cycle as anybody else in "journalism" today. The migration last April was big enough to pad the article quota for some social media journalists. Also, much of the press was nonplussed at beat, negative at worst.

                  I'm gonna go with Occam's Razor on this one and say that it was more likely a flash in the pan based on the targeting algorithms of the tech media hivemind. See also: ello.

                  1. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2018 13:44:52 EST Annah

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                     @deutrino I wish I had your niavete.
                     1. deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2018 14:08:34 EST deutrino

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                        @maiyannah eh, we can agree to disagree on this point. Like I said though, I'm glad there are other people working on different software, and I'm also not sorry I specifically picked the mastodon instance I did based on lack of instance blocks. There are plenty of cool people on the black sheep nodes :p

               3. deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jan-2018 13:45:40 EST deutrino

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                  @maiyannah I'm glad your software is part of the fediverse, btw.