Dan HonOct 28, 2022

First news organization to stand up its federated Mastodon server with a trustable domain (e.g. http://follow.washingtonpost.com) and accounts for its staff for people to follow gets a prize.

Also, proposal for a standardized domain for news orgs, e.g. follow.bbcnews.com, follow.nytimes.com, and/or autodiscovery of a mastodon server for a parent domain e.g. a socialnetworks.txt

#mastodon #media #news #newstech

Show threadDan HonOct 28, 2022
Wrote this up in today's newsletter: https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/4230/
s13e17: A Proposal for News Organization Mastodon Servers and More

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Show threadGeorge HotellingOct 28, 2022

@Danhon it's worth noting that Mastodon speaks ActivityPub, which means that news orgs may be able to publish to Mastodon from their existing CMS without running a Mastodon server.

My WordPress blog posts to Mastodon, but it doesn't *run* Mastodon. Not through a 3rd party bot, but by using the ActivityPub plugin to let people follow it in Mastodon.

Show threadRoyGreenhilt
@george @Danhon Hey george, what plugin do you use in wordpress for mastodon postings? I was using a social plugin for a while, but the developer went AWOL.
Oct 28, 2022 at 9:15pmWeb
Show threadGeorge HotellingOct 28, 2022

@RoyGreenhilt @Danhon https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

Replies come in as blog comments too, which is neat

ActivityPub

Connect your site to the Open Social Web and let millions of users follow, share, and interact with your content from Mastodon, Pixelfed, and more.

WordPress.org
Show threadRoyGreenhiltOct 28, 2022
@george @Danhon oo excellent. I'll check it out. Danke.