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 threadJoe Roberts (They/Them)Oct 28, 2022
@Danhon There already is autodiscovery for mastodon, mind. Standard is returning a 301 on requests to /.well-known/finger or something like that.
Show threadKadin

@twofirstnames @Danhon That seems like a very roundabout way to do what DNS SRV records are designed for.

You can add as many SRV records to your domain as you need, each pointing to a server (and port!) that hosts the service.

They also have a mechanism for specifying "priority" and "weight", for load balancing and failover.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record

SRV record - Wikipedia

Oct 29, 2022 at 3:53amWeb
Show threadJoe Roberts (They/Them)Oct 29, 2022
@kadin @Danhon sure, though in this case web finger is a standard for asking ‘who is this person and where can I find them’, so keeping it in HTTP makes sense imo.