For journalists and politicians it’s a challenge moving off.

At this rate short of banning it in the country I’m not sure I see those groups moving before the masses do sadly.

There’s a Wikipedia page about this phenomenon where advertisers started to prefer video in 2015.

Explains exactly what you’re seeing.

You are invited to a meeting Agent X/Whistleblower Coffee chat.

Going? Yes/No/Maybe

I mean he probably does…he did start it before moving onto Nostr.

I’ve made a note to ask for the pay when I see mod postings. Luckily I’m finding more and more mod postings so there’s lots of opportunities to remind mods that they’re lining Reddits pockets for free.

Glad he linked Cory Doctorow at the end. His recent works like the internet con cover this topic well.

He does offer solutions but as you could guess these things aren’t easy to fix.

I’m curious to see where politicians end up after ditching X. I want to believe that governments could set up their own lemmy/bluesky instances. But my gut is telling me Meta owned platforms will win out due to ease of use and their ability to comply with local European laws.