Imo, it’s way more likely she got her information about BS from the website/a press release/a contact at BS and like you said, didn’t bother to get a contrasting opinion from anyone associated with Mastodon (probably because it’s a lot harder to get ahold of someone from a distributed project like Mastodon).
So she got BS from BS, what a surprise… This kind of “journalism” drives me nuts, more and more medias owned by idiots with too much money promotes these kind of crap with zero nuance and fact checking :/
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Imo, it’s way more likely she got her information about BS from the website/a press release/a contact at BS and like you said, didn’t bother to get a contrasting opinion from anyone associated with Mastodon (probably because it’s a lot harder to get ahold of someone from a distributed project like Mastodon).
So she got BS from BS, what a surprise… This kind of “journalism” drives me nuts, more and more medias owned by idiots with too much money promotes these kind of crap with zero nuance and fact checking :/
To be fair, my guess about the source of those claims is also totally unsubstantiated and quite possibly bullshit 😉