The pessimist in me says they don't want to acknowledge any venues that they can't later try to manipulate an algorithm to control who sees what
@Muddobbers @dangillmor I think it's simpler that that. It's not the owners behind this, it's the writers. The journalists do not get fellated and lionized here the way they do on the corporate social media sites. They do not get the immediate elevated status they have come to believe they deserve, just for publishing listicle round-ups of "here's what people are saying on twitter" and calling that writing. Here, they're just punters. So this does not exist.
It's just ego.
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@jwz @Muddobbers @dangillmor centralization is simpler: easy to understand, easy to measure, easy to "monetize", also easy to write about. Decentralization is a far more complicated and messy process, but can also survive long beyond "turns out, our dictator needed some therapy" .. and evolve into something greater over time.
@codinghorror @Muddobbers @dangillmor Yeah but if I had just said "almost all journalists are lazy hacks" it wouldn't have sounded as deep, and I get paid by the word.
@jwz @Muddobbers @dangillmor I regret to inform you that we have created a world where the words "journalist" and "human" are synonyms