@VickiKyriakakis @kcarruthers also over the break, I attended the #Woodfordfolkfestival in QLD. Whilst at the festival I attended a QA with a panel including Daniel Angus from the #QUT #DigitalMediaResearchCentre. I asked a question about the challenges #Mastodon might pose for media orgs depending on advertising revenue. Dan suggested that one way forward for media organizations in light of a decline in advertising revenue might be government funding. I don't know if that will be popular. The Australian people by way of the government fund maintenance of roads and public health infrastructure amongst other things. So why not news and information infrastructure as well?