Mastodon is interoperable, decentralized, operated by a nonprofit, lively, and, ACTUALLY, isn't hard to use. So why is everyone championing Threads as the main Twitter alternative?
It's not a blog. These are the strongest of the tech journalists from Vice News's Motherboard (tech section) who started their own separate venture independent of Motherboard.
They actually have a mastodon account ! @404mediaco@mastodon.social One of the few sites that talks about how great mastodon is and actually is on mastodon 😄
And I agree with him. People who say "mastodon is complicated" are making it complicated. It's about as easy as choosing an email provider and then following the same sign up procedure as everywhere else.
I would recommend that 404media self-host. It would be even better for their journalists and staff. This would require either paying for their instance or some IT person to help them out. Either way, I think all news organizations should self-host their mastodon instances.