Oh. so this is the thread people have been talking about.
jfc.
look, i only know of Dare from Twitter & the tech scene. so that’s almost 20 years now (i joined there in 2007). Dare is like the Black unicorn of techbrolandia. he was never the guy to bring visibility to what’s newsworthy. he’s always been around to amplify techbros.
you know who was followed for what was newsworthy?
Oh. so this is the thread people have been talking about.
jfc.
look, i only know of Dare from Twitter & the tech scene. so that’s almost 20 years now (i joined there in 2007). Dare is like the Black unicorn of techbrolandia. he was never the guy to bring visibility to what’s newsworthy. he’s always been around to amplify techbros.
you know who was followed for what was newsworthy?
Is #mastodon becoming an echo chamber? This post from @carnage4life has me questioning our community. The Mastodon team is finally getting some traction, the product improvements are increasing, The #UX is improving, yet people posting on multiple platforms are making comments like this. It's confusing.
I *know* people here don't want this to be a classic social media-clone but we'd *like* journalists to be here right? They aren't coming with examples like this!
As this conversation is spiraling a bit I want to make a few things clear: 1. I'd like Mastodon to be MORE inclusive and bring in more voices 2. Some people don't seem to want that 3. This is core problem to solve: How do we let more in, but not "pollute" your feed? 4. The solution is NOT "gatekeeping", revelling in the fact that AI journalists aren't welcome 5. This is the same reason we lost "Black Twitter" when it came over in 2022
Yes, a lot of you don't want AI posts in your feed (or pick any other topic) but the solution isn't to keep "AI People" from joining Mastodon, any more than it is keeping marginalized communities off of Mastodon.
OK, this is going even MORE sideways so I need to make a few things clear:
1. I took a complex point and made it poorly
2. My goal was to ask for more inclusiveness
3. I am sickened by what happend to BlackTwitter and I don't want it recur
4.
Someone comes into the bar filled with programmers who've been laid off or threatened to be laid off because of managements love of AI, and they think they can convince people to like AI?
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
in reply to your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 • • •look, i used Twitter as a news platform way before most people even imagined it could be used as such.
i was reporting on-the-ground, posting pics & videos with my Blackberry by 2008. i created a lot of what's now considered conventional reporting.
that’s why thousands of reporters and news orgs followed me. i was the journalists’ journalist.
and it’s why i later found out, thanks to Edward Snowden, i had been targeted by techbros. because am a nobody (to them) that people trust.
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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
in reply to your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 • • •there’s a lot of bullshit with the “but where are the Black people”.
social.coop/@scottjenson/11635…
if the #fediverse isn’t like corporate “social media” built for surveillance; then stop trying to use Mastodon to stalk people.
BIPOC come to the fediverse to not be the target of the WHITE GAZE. they come to the fediverse to be whatever the fuck they want to be.
BIPOC are here, using their personas of choice, cuz they’re NOT here for you to stalk them.
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there’s a lot of bullshit with the “but where are the Black people”.
social.coop/@scottjenson/11635…
if the #fediverse isn’t like corporate “social media” built for surveillance; then stop trying to use Mastodon to stalk people.
BIPOC come to the fediverse to not be the target of the WHITE GAZE. they come to the fediverse to be whatever the fuck they want to be.
BIPOC are here, using their personas of choice, cuz they’re NOT here for you to stalk them.
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Scott Jenson
2026-04-05 15:27:20
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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
in reply to your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 • • •this post though… OMG… don't even know how to begin with this:
social.coop/@scottjenson/11635…
the tell is in his use of “AI JOURNALISM”. that’s just the cherry on top of the shit sundae Jenson is tryna sell as “the echo chamber”.
in Scott Jenson’s world, people who reject #AIslop are also racists who won’t boost his one Black, “AIfluencer” friend Dare.
nobody is buying Dare’s efforts to sell #AIslop as inevitable because there is nothing to buy.
IT’S ALL HYPE & PROPAGANDA
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Scott Jenson (@scottjenson@social.coop)
Scott Jenson (social.coop)Diane
in reply to your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 • • •I just want to add.
Someone comes into the bar filled with programmers who've been laid off or threatened to be laid off because of managements love of AI, and they think they can convince people to like AI?
That's seems foolish.