I know some of you get down on the fedi, but a year or two ago, the Texas Observer was about to shut down and lay off a bunch of their staff, and the fediverse
literally saved the publication.
Good journalism is hard to find these days, but is increasingly found on the more indie fringes, rather than produced by big media conglomerates.
I'm hoping they are still in the black today, but
@TexasObserver is one of the few publishers that actually runs their own Mastodon instance, and has been a good citizen of the fedi, publishing several "truth to power" stories. And they've done good things since their new lease on life, justifying the support they've been given several times over.
Here's a few amazing stories, just for a sampler, and the output is consistently good:
https://www.texasobserver.org/trans-kids-youth-are-you-ok-photos/https://www.texasobserver.org/revealed-operators-neo-nazi-x-accounts/https://www.texasobserver.org/immigration-asylum-biden-order/If you're looking to support good left-wing media that has consistently been on the right side of history, a bastion of truth-telling in the middle of a hotbed of right-wing scumfuckery, you could do a lot worse.
Donations are tax-deductible:
https://texasobserver.fundjournalism.org/donate/#
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TexasObserverAnonymity has long been a tactic used by extremists to spread their ideology while avoiding social consequences, from Klansmen hoods to online pseudonyms.
Tristan Lee (The Texas Observer)
Content warning: for those who want to contact their followers, the fedi is a good bet for that, because of how sharing works here
On other platforms, you have to "perform" to push out your content, to make it go viral you need shares, you need engagement, comments, likes, retweets, whatever.
And that's just to get the people who follow you--those who already said they want to see it--to see it.
And the fedi doesn't work like that. Literally everything you say goes direct to your followers, no middleperson involved, no algorithm in the way, no certain engagement target required.
No "Be sure to hit that like or boost button!" required.
You posted, your followers saw it, and there was no 'shadowboost' involved, where some voices are more important than others, nope. You followed them, they posted, you were notified.