It’s pretty funny that people think those journos/activists would even touch the fediverse after they indirectly turned it into twitter for people they got kicked off twitter.
I don't win if you're unfulfilled in friends and content, you don't lose if I have the most followers. Journalism broadcasting and sourcing is a model that might not work in mastodon, but mastodon doesn't have to be a 1-1 mapping of the existing social uses of Twitter
They would love to turn it into the new Twitter and it is both hilarious and intensely stressful to see the fights over whether this will happen.
I think this was... Tuesday? The past month, and especially the past week has felt like about six hundred years.