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[–] mke@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I think I agree with the major point of the article, that many gaming journalists... don't do a great job. At all. Many seem to outright hate the communities they serve, which can't be healthy for either side.

But it certainly wasn't this article that convinced me. It's needlessly hostile, contains personal attacks and petty insults, and despite its many claims and assumptions about Deadlock, gaming companies, journalists and gamers, it has only 4 outgoing links—one of them, bizarrely, simply to x.com—and nothing else. Screenshots? More supporting evidence? Have a useless picture of Valve's office, I guess.

One of the linked resources is a tweet:

bye Twitter Quoted tweet: "Where to find Verge staff on Mastodon https://theverge.com/23519135/mastodon..."

Why does the author think this is relevant?

Their Twitter account links to a Mastodon address, a throwback to when Elon Musk bought the website and the journos had a hissy fit because they could no longer backchannel to have accounts banned for telling them to “learn to code.”

Wow, that's why you think people were complaining? Nothing else, no other possible undesirable consequence arising from Musk's takeover of Twitter? Not even his influence in levels and management of hate speech and misinformation in the platform?

Indeed, the majority of his last month’s output on Twitter – now X.com – is whining about Musk and bizarrely saying “bye Twitter” despite The Verge still being very much active on the site. It’s all so tiresomely typical.

It's actually quite common for organizations that give mastodon a chance to keep their Twitter account as well. It's the sad reality that most people (many of their following) will stay on Twitter. See Mozilla for another example, they host their own instance, even, but that sadly doesn't mean they can throw away Twitter.

So the journalist in question shows support for mastodon, both by mentioning their account and bringing attention to the fact that The Verge is also joining, and this is your reaction? If you know why this happens, it's misleading, and if you don't, then it's a failure in reporting. Both are bad and make me hesitant to believe anything else you say.

By the way, I'm curious about your choice of platform. I wonder what factors led to you picking nazi central as your center of operations. I'm not claiming you're a Nazi, it's just... you're sitting at the table with them, you know?

The answer is games journalism, maybe journalism in general, has become a largely self-serving practice where nothing matters except appearing smarter than the audience you’re supposed to serve.

Well said, Richard. Definitely got that feeling just now.

And to people thinking The Verge sucks completely: don't generalize publishers like this, please! You should be critical, aware of their leanings and biases, but remember that they're still an organization hosting multiple writers with different skills too. The Verge has some solid reporting, like when they showed how SEO ruined the web. They also have some utterly shameful moments—let us never forget The Verge PC—just like most other media.

[–] ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Yup, came here to say something similar. The author completely lost me when I got to the part talking down about Mastodon