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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
I have some thoughts about the type of people who are best to help Farcaster grow. When it first emerged, Twitter was not trying to be a global source of news. It happened by organically when lots of people whom I'd call "news influencers" rather than journalists started using the platform for live updates, debates, and sharing information. I myself started accidentally doing reporting"while attending some anti-WTO protests and the Arab Spring as an ordinary curious observer debating people online and posting live updates. It was only after a large number of normie news junkies made Twitter a place where such conversations were happening that the stuffier and richer establishment types felt forced to join in. At that point Twitter became a "global public sphere" almost against its will. I still use Twitter and probably always will. But I think that other platforms can use the "news junkie effect" to create lively new public squares on the internet. A great city should also have more than one public square.
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Rando
@chasing-pointers
the vast majority of those posing as journalists today are, in fact, just dilettante influencers. not just on X, but in formerly legitimate news media. The reason is a drastic decay of journalism education legitimacy paired with the obsolescence of the so-called Fourth Estate.
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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
Can't lie there is a lot of truth in that. "Dilettante influencers" devastating lol
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