playawfulthings.bsky.social
Ambassador for the non-profit Newsmast Foundation, towards a social media that works.
For more --> @newsmast.bsky.social & https://www.newsmastfoundation.org/
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No special information from anyone at SWF tbc, just based on how things look to me from the outside.
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Both cross protocol groups and articles would be great to see. Semi informed opinion is that long form on AP will be the first thing SWF releases.
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Definitely
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caley's gut market call is that we're in a "wait for hard data on the real economy" period where Trump isn't going to retreat absent a crisis, which apparently isn't happening now, and we're going to find out what these new trade barriers do to an economy (probably not good things)
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We're working on it! @newsmastfoundation.org
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Congrats!
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Exciting! Looking forward to seeing where this goes 😄
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Its a problem tbc, but please can all of us on this side of the fence be clearheaded about what is and isn't happening.
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Its not even the biggest political attack platform in American history - more impactful than Hearst? Let alone Pravda.
Its a large platform, not a behemoth like Ig & TT, dependent on user content so whatever editorial direction is being imposed from above doesn't exactly command the entire system.
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He's also a dork troll. There is a ceiling to whatever stupid revenge he's trying to mount on the media for not taking him seriously.
Agree - comment belongs on Bsky now (more diverse opinions needed) but, for some, X still works for news gathering. We don't like it but we can't be blind to it.
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Hi Dylan, I work for a non-profit specialising in helping news orgs leverage New Social - would love to chat about this some time!
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I'm a bit less convinced Feeds & Discover will take over from follows. I think people like all of their interests shuffled together - *Metallica* *News* *Batman* *Puppy* - with their 100 favourite accounts surfacing regularly. Like Spotify but with reading and you're permanently hitting *skip*.
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Could it be a more spontaneous process though? Someone pops up 5 times in 15 posts and you think "wow this is bloat" *unfollow*
Or could it harm Bluesky's stickiness in the medium run as people find their Following feeds more bloated?
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Benefits bashing rhetoric aside, re-tooling our system so it encourages people into work is desperately needed when we have such a high proportion on sickness & unemployment. Goes along with wider public sector reform.