we need now to convince citizen journalists, bloggers and hyperlocal publications that having a presence in the #fediverse is, in the era of AI slop and #enshittification, more important than ever.
i would need to switch VPN localities to have access to the amounts of headlines from spanish, french, italian, portuguese sources i get here ―on #Mastodon’s own search engine― than on ANY www search engine. they all rely on either Google or Bing slop. Mastodon doesn’t.
BTW i don’t know who is behind @span TheConversationUS but just found out they put out editions in french @span ConversationFR and spanish @span theconversationes
in their Spanish edition i found this article written by a group of scholars from the Universidad de Navarra about how the abandonment of rural economies is contributing to #climateChange and the extreme #droughts#sequías that cause #wildfires #incendios forestales:
https://theconversation.com/fomentar-la-economia-rural-el-mejor-antidoto-contra-los-incendios-261935