A Mastodon Explainer (Robert Wright & Harry McCracken)

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🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

00:00 The time Harry stood up for editorial integrity 4:34 Can Alex Jones get a Mastodon account? 11:30 Choosing the best Mastodon community for you 22:19 Why dunking on people is harder on Mastodon 38:45 Should Elon Musk be worried? 48:54 How social media platforms fail 52:49 The (anti-)ideological tenor of Mastodon so far 57:35 Is moving from Twitter to Mastodon hard? 1:05:56 Harry’s theory of Elon

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Harry McCracken (Fast Company). Recorded November 15, 2022.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:08.9	Hi, Harry.
0:10.5	Hi, Bob.
0:11.5	How you doing?
0:12.7	Great.
0:13.0	How are you?
0:14.0	Cannot complain.
0:15.5	Let me introduce us.
0:16.7	I'm Robert Wright, publisher of Non-Zero Newsletter.
0:18.7	This is a Non-Zero podcast.
0:19.9	You're Harry McCracken,
0:22.1	a esteemed tech writer, currently at Fast Company, where you are the, what, global technology
0:27.5	editor? Is that your title? I am the global technology editor, although I'm still unclear what
0:31.6	the global part means. Well, is there like a regular technology editor that you can pull rank on
0:36.9	there and just kind of remind them who's in charge? That must be it, although he's really good, so I tend not to do that. I would. If I were you, if I were you, I'd be going Donald Trump on him, man, his self-esteem would be in the ground. I would take advantage of a title like that. But I digress. Well, let me say a little more about you because,
0:54.7	you know, I had forgotten until I looked at your Wikipedia page this morning that you had
1:02.0	this great moment of integrity in your career. You were, you were editor of a PC World magazine.
1:08.9	That's right. Which first of all, back in the days of physical magazines,
1:12.6	as some of us remember, was one of the big Windows platform computing magazines.
1:16.6	I think of like PC and PC World as the big ones.
1:20.6	There was also a PC compute or something.
1:22.6	Am I?
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