2/6 Much as I admire those people who have deleted their X a/cs and now exclusively use Mastodon, I am still finding X/Twitter to be of the most value to my job as a journalist. e.g. my latest article, about Vercel’s AI products, could not have been written without info from X — not to mention I DMed its CEO there, for further info. Plus of course: SEARCH. This is a core part of my daily usage of social media. So, I still need/use X.
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3/6 It is good news that Mastodon is rolling out search functionality, incl in the instance I use (.social). I love that the Mastodon project is doing that. However, it will; take quite some time for this to become prevalent, as people basically need to opt-in for search indexing. That’s ok, I have no problem with that approach. Just saying, it’ll still take a long time for Mastodon to become more useful than X, on that account.
