Nu.nl on stage about journalism and social media:
We could let our thriving section of commenters (3 million people) to join the fediverse. It could be a client, our own app, and create a win win win situation.
This is good for the users: who now have a trusted place for news ánd interaction
The journalists can interact and spread news in one place we own
It is good for society if we boost the fediverse and create a public sphere this way.
Nu.nl on stage about journalism and social media:
"We gave three things to big tech:
- The distribution of our media
- The interaction about our content
- The monetization of our work"
CFO @mellifluousbox now on stage at Waag for #MastodonInNL
"When Musk bought Twitter in 2022, the staff of three at Mastodon was completely overwhelmed. It sparked the incentive to grow and hire more people"
"Mastodon is software, it is the network and it is a non-profit foundation now. We did this to stay independent"
"In the current political climate, we want Mastodon to be rooted in the EU. The non-profit is going to be registered in NL"
"We want to build the wikipedia of social media"
@andypiper quotes on journalists and media;
"You own your website, you own your email. Why not own your social media?"
"On mastodon there is no opaque algorithm deciding if your followers see your posts. We also don't incentivize doomscrolling"
"Mastodon has a nice feature to highlight content in your post using Markdown "
(check https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/07/highlighting-journalism-on-mastodon/ )
"We are going to have better referral tracking so you can see where viewers come from"
Some quotes from @andypiper now on stage at #waag for #MastodonInNL
"Mastodon is not tracking you because we do not want to show you ads. That makes it hard to tell your PR dept. what the reach is."
"one-size-fits all, global, moderation doesn't work. Local moderation on mastodon is very powerful"
"There is very strong adoption of the fediverse in the Netherlands; the willingness to use new tech, the size of the country helps and good IT infra helps here."
4 steps to transition to the fediverse according to @marleenstikker
1. Capacity building, exchange, reserach
2. Prototypes, hacketons, workshops
3. business development, policy development
4. helpdesk, online & offline campains, events
Now at #MastodonInNL meeting in #Waag
Now on stage @mellifluousbox (financial director at mastodon) and @andypiper (head of communications).
"We gave grown up on an exciting internet which no longer exists. We care about humans. That helps us to grow as a society. But current tech is not it".
Douwe
Andy Piper