But it's only part of the solution.

We still very, very, very much need *vetted* sources of information, & repeat players. This is the function that journalists are *supposed* to perform.

They are not supposed to be oracles. They are not supposed to be the bookies of democracy, setting the odds & influencing how people place their bets. Nate Silver is the antithesis of journalism.

We DESPERATELY NEED nonprofit journalism - & we HAVE it!! SUPPORT IT WITH YOUR $!!

@ProPublica for one

Getting people to do new stuff is hard.

You have to make it cool (interesting), cool (hyped), or fun, or easy, or cheap, or ...

or as many of these as possible.

often it will be hard or lonely or boring or a little dumb in the beginning for the trailblazers - but that can change fast. IMO Mastodon is already interesting, cheap, & easy.

Twitter was boring & dumb in the beginning, imo. Now it's dangerous, with pockets of value (COVID, disability rights). How do we get those people over here?

Of course there are the people who WANT to be disinformed & you can't fix that.

BUT, I worry that we can't fix any of this unless we figure out a way to replace the defective sources of information, with better ones, that people actually use. Mastodon *could* be part of the solution.

I don't have the answers. Obviously the winds of $ are against us but history shows building those networks has happened before.