𝓻𝓻𝓪 on Nostr: "The #fediverse and AT Protocol also yield different problems: which instance should ...

"The #fediverse and AT Protocol also yield different problems: which instance should a newsroom choose to make its home? How can it measure #engagement in what it posts in a decentralized system so that it knows what’s working and where it should continue to invest its meager resources?

Much has been written about newsrooms’ inability to move away from X even as it has become a hotbed of white supremacy and far-right rhetoric. The honest truth is that it still drives significant #traffic to their websites, and in an environment where traffic #referrals are dropping overall, intentionally further deepening the traffic shortfall is understandably not a career risk newsroom leaders are willing to make."

I've said it before, the fediverse needs to solve the issue of a universal referrer in outgoing links in order to show up in web traffic statistics as a single entity ("Mastodon", "Fediverse" whatever). Currently all web traffic coming from the fediverse shows up as one of any of the 10k+ different domains which will naturally all be at the end of the "long tail" and *always* behind centralized platforms, no matter how popular it gets. Organizations need to see line go up to invest in this ecosystem.

https://werd.io/2024/dispatches-from-the-media-apocalypse