Current status: fuming with rage at the SHEER INEPTITUDE of the French press in covering W Social and Mastodon.

_elena@mastodon.social

RE: https://mamot.fr/@imacrea/115977976198245094

In the article linked below "journalist" François Saltiel wrote that @Gargron "quit his own network [Mastodon] because he was fed up with the behavior of certain users."

Eugen referred to deleting his bridge to Bluesky, not quitting Mastodon FFS.

You should know Mr. Saltier simply rehashed W Social's press release and failed to mention it is a fork of Bluesky...

"Journalism" today

tizianomattei@poliverso.org

@_elena
This is the kind of things that make me furious as well!

@Gargron @Mastodon @renchap

ticho@mas.to

@_elena I'm surprised this kind of stuff even reaches mainstream press, normally they try to ignore any "computer-stuff" not backed by large corporations.

streetcoder@mastodon.social

@_elena @Gargron WTF how dumb could they be or is it on purpose with an agenda and framing fake news.

laxsill@social.spejset.org

@_elena quit his own network? From what I can tell from following @Gargron , he seems both active in the platform and for the mastodon movement, a bit of a libelous statement

kitsunevixi@sakurajima.social

@Gargron@mastodon.social Lawyer up. A claim like that can cause a lot of damage to the reputation of your hard work.

oblomov@sociale.network

@_elena time to flood the article with comments about it.

@Gargron

_elena@mastodon.social

@KitsuneVixi indeed

The chef's kiss is that according to LinkedIn, the author of the article has been a teacher of journalism at La Sorbonne and has published numerous books.

This is not a 19-year-old intern casually writing about tech: https://fr.linkedin.com/in/françois-saltiel-42725334

@Gargron

sloanlance@mastodon.social

@_elena @Gargron
My favorite French press…

eowyn@pouet.chapril.org

@ticho @_elena they're promoting w in the article so they need to slander mastodon.

aaronmccollum@fosstodon.org

@laxsill @_elena Yeah he stepped down from his job position but certainly didn’t quit Mastodon altogether. That was either lazy reporting or a poor interpretation of Eugene’s blog post. But he’s definitely still around.

laxsill@social.spejset.org

@aaronmccollum @_elena tbh it doesn't feel lazy, it feels like a tendentious way to phrase it to give the impression of conflict

clintruin@mastodon.social

@_elena @Gargron
"JoURnaliSM"

joel@gts.tumfatig.net

@_elena that’s why "old" and "wise" are two different words

Cc: @KitsuneVixi @Gargron

ramsey@phpc.social

@_elena @benroyce @Gargron They could have replaced “Eugen” with “Jack” and made a true statement because Jack did quit his own network (Bluesky) over the behavior of its users.

paninid@mastodon.world

@ramsey @_elena @benroyce @Gargron

Who says trollsmanship has no pro-social value?

benroyce@mastodon.social

@_elena @Gargron

yup

#corporate "#journalism"

we are on #mastodon/ #fediverse because the profit motive in corporate #socialMedia means privacy defilement, free reign for bigotry/ ignorance, and #algorithm manipulation by #plutocracy agendas

the same applies to the #news #media:

#ventureCapital takes over dying traditional media outlets and puts right wing goons in the managing editor positions

we have nonprofit news (#NPR, #ProPublica, #TheGuardian, etc)

trust them

all else: beware

_elena@mastodon.social

@benroyce perfectly said Ben!!!

I just found a video of the CEO of W Social at Davos literally going: "10 years ago we were saying that data is the new oil, but right now we say HIGH QUALITY data is the new oil."

To me it kind of reads like a confession / motivating force behind (1) creating W Social (2) using AT Proto for their "European alternative to X." Ouf.

naturemc@mastodon.online

@_elena I didn't listen to it, only read the text. I wouldn't judge all journalists based on one example.
He states: "Tout cela est très marketing pour W, qui saisit une fenêtre d’opportunité" and while talking about Zeiter's great experience in marketing and publicity he nails the big problem of Mastodon.

Mastodon has neither the money nor the human power for big lobbyism/marketing.
I know, Mastodon fans don't like to hear it but it's a fact. And the size of a network depends on

@Gargron

naturemc@mastodon.online

@_elena how many politicians, organisations and journalists will join - because then the masses will join. If we want that is another question.

So yes, it's just one of these "quick" broadcast contributions where an author doesn't interview people directly (or did he?) and graps the informations on the desk. And these were definitively the press release/publicity of Zeiter ...

@Gargron

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Current status: fuming with rage at the SHEER INEPTITUDE of the French press in covering W Social and Mastodon.