This was not about Mastodon. It was a general comment about X and the fact that journalists have not abandoned it en masse for reasons that should be obvious to anyone paying attention by this point. They remain on X. They took control of their publishing, and I would recommend taking control of their social by running their own ActivityPub server instead of relying on enshittified platforms who are not their friends, and who view them as the enemy. I’m surprised that every news org hasn’t already done this.
I feel like journos & editors are single-handedly keeping X afloat, as they need and crave what is offers. Its a tough and abusively relationship that I, like you, feel they need to break away from. However, at the same time I do how their businesses might suffer from it. Tough situation.
They handed control of their audience to platforms without thinking about where that could lead. Now they are in a tough spot. But starting a new venture by doubling down on that twenty-teens mistake seems to especially ignore the history
Did you even read the comment you replied to?