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 threadKadin

@Danhon Not sure why you'd want the explicit subdomain. We don't usually have "[email protected]" addresses anymore; "[email protected]" works fine.

DNS SRV records would be the obvious way to point users/clients to a specific server (like MX records do for mail, but more flexible).

Oct 29, 2022 at 3:45amWeb
Show threadbhorstOct 29, 2022
@Danhon @kadin If the subdomain displays an aggregate public feed for all the site’s creators, it becomes a good interface to find them and explicitly follow them. Also, for users without a fediverse account, they can read all the microcontent from a news provider at this location.