After some consideration, I've suspended journa.host from the server I run (not with this account). There's quite a lot of decent people signed up there, but also at least one prominent right-winger (The National Review's Jonah Goldberg), and I can't risk it.
Also, reporters mining social media for fodder without the authors' knowledge or consent is a plague on every other social media platform, and I think fedi should nip it in the bud.
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dept. of post-noyovo studies
•Content warning: more deets re: fediblock, journalism
- jeffrey evan gold (lots of copaganda on his twitter)
- kirk flashner (bio begins with "30+ years working in federal law enforcement, intelligence and national security")
- mark paltrowitz (works at blackrock, a major investor in weapons manufacturers & other shit)
we saw plenty of other gross things but those should illustrate your point well enough.