Normal brain: Admission for my two and a half year old child is free. Scientist brain: Cost of admission for a participant aged 2.67 years is unknown.
Until a couple of weeks ago I was still able to pull 5-6 million tweets per day from Twitter's free standard API. That number is now down to 1.5 million per day. So I think it's time to resume my transition to using bsky!
The main problem for me is that I'm a freelancer. I don't have an email tied to a publication's domain. But I'd still be interested in getting verified.
It shouldn't be. That's kinda the whole reason I think 'journalist' makes sense as a way to combat the dangers of sheer popularity* (accurate or artificial). Again, not saying this solves all problems, but I don't want to be on a platform that assumes power in the world is perfectly balanced.
Agreed. And practical issues like freelance journalists are most definitely a nightmare for [someone besides me] to deal with 🤗
So bsky should penalize journalists? Or only support identity verification? Because the latter isn't mutually exclusive or even competitive!
Likewise!!!
I don't want to either but I think it's inevitable and journalists are less arbitrary and less rich than most alternatives.