Hey #Journalists that are joining Mastodon! 👋
Happy to have you here.
Now please, learn how Mastodon works, and start reporting on it honestly. Every mainstream source that writes about it gets things atrociously wrong.
I get that it's really different than traditional social media, but journalistic integrity means doing your research before you publish something, and some of these articles are just ridiculously incorrect. They're hard to take seriously. Like this: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63999452
It's embarrassing to see the BBC do this.
They refer to it as a "site". No, it is not a website, it is a piece of web software. Would you call all the WordPress blogs a "site"?
They refer to instances interchangeably as "channels", "groups", and "servers". Mastodon does not have channels or groups, and instance ≠ server. An instance could be a cluster of servers mixed with SaaS solutions.
They call Mastodon a "rival" to Twitter, which from a business perspective isn't true. It's like calling email and Facebook "rivals".
They claim Instances are separated by topic, which is partially true, but not even remotely the rule.
They refer to the flagship instance as simply as "Social", which is just the gTLD after the word "Mastodon", not the name of the instance!
