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This is a smart move by @Mastodon. #Twitter / #X journalism is struggling, and #Threads doesn’t want journalism. Mastodon is leaning into it though, “To reinforce and encourage Mastodon as the go-to place for journalism, we’re launching a new feature today.” I think this is a lever for differentiation; making Mastodon more valuable to journalists and users.
https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/112718231305707672
Today we're launching a new #Mastodon feature that will highlight writers and journalists that are active on the fediverse when their their articles are being shared.https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/07/highlighting-journalism-on-mastodon/
Highlighting journalism on Mastodon
Today we're launching a new feature that will highlight writers and journalists that are active on the fediverse when their their articles are being shared.Mastodon Blog
Several of us overly online biologists spent years quietly doing an experiment on Twitter, trying to find out if tweeting about new studies from a set of mid-range journals caused an increase in later citations, compared to set of untweeted control articles.
Turns out we had no noticeable effect; the tweeted papers were cited at the same rate as the control set.
Our paper, headed by Trevor Branch, was published today in PLOS One:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0292201
Controlled experiment finds no detectable citation bump from Twitter promotion
Multiple studies across a variety of scientific disciplines have shown that the number of times that a paper is shared on Twitter (now called X) is correlated with the number of citations that paper receives.journals.plos.org
Grok chatbot is all set to go open-source!!!
https://news.itsfoss.com/xai-grok/
Elon Musk To Make xAI's Grok Chatbot Open-Source
A new chatbot entering the open-source arena. What are you doing OpenAI?Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
@NPR dropped Twitter and maintained almost all of their traffic. #Journalists, get off #Twitter.
https://niemanreports.org/articles/npr-twitter-musk/
Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible | Nieman Reports
The numbers confirm what many of us have long suspected — that Twitter wasn’t worth the effort, at least in terms of traffic.Nieman Reports
I can't even...they're going to remove blocking from #Twitter or #X or whatever the fuck it's called today.
This is absolutely brain-dead. Muting only stops you seeing them. Blocking prevents them replying with shit that others will see, that you then can't see. Removing blocking is just so stupid.
So many reasons why a hard block is necessary from bots to harassment. They don't stop just because you can't see them ffs.
Japan Earthquake Alert App (1.9 million followers) Says Sayonara to X
"[..]We have decided that if we were to spend over ¥700,000 per month that it would be better if this money could go to developing our NERV app and strengthening our ActivityPub servers instead of X’s API. Therefore, we are beginning to cut down on our posts on X."
https://unseen-japan.com/nerv-app-x-twitter-leaving/
#X #Twitter #mastodon #activitypub #nerv #gehirn
Japan Earthquake Alert App Says Sayonara to X - Unseen Japan
Many people in Japan depend on the NERV service for earthquake alerts. Unfortunately, they'll no longer be able to receive them on X.Himari Semans (Unseen Japan)
