@teirdes I'm sorry but this is a totally fallacious reasoning that can be forgiven to an uninformed user, but it is not acceptable on the part of a journalist.

First of all, there are many instances dedicated to journalism, but each of them has particularities: instances based on the verification of the journalist, others pertaining to a particular linguistic area, others still linked to a specific political area. For example, we created an Italian Mastodon instance for journalists and academics and we accompanied it with a special version of Mastodon that allows you to create long and formatted texts. Well, it was of no use: academics are ten times more than journalists!.

Beyond these instances, there are others of a generalist nature, multilingual or localized in the national language.

Finally, there is always the possibility of creating your own instance: a personal instance of the individual journalist or an instance of the organization to which it belongs (publisher, newspaper, cooperative, collective). Without excluding the possibility of federating your Wordpress blog (a very simple action: all you need is a free plugin) or creating a newsletter on Ghost.

As you can see, no journalist would be forced to embrace an instance.

The problem is mainly attributable to journalists:

1. their laziness
2. their ignorance of the Fediverse (which was initially sold as an alternative to Twitter, but IT HAS NEVER BEEN AND CANNOT BECOME SO
3. the subjection that journalists suffer from fashions (Bluesky and Threads)

On our part, on the part of us activists of the Fediverse, there is obviously some blame, including that of having presented the Fediverse as something difficult to explain and not as something easy to use.