Mastodawn

Dan Hon Oct 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

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bhorst

@Danhon Using the word “follow” for this subdomain is elegant and good for casual users (instead of something that feels like tech jargon to them). It creates an easily remembered sentence because it’s a verb, which makes for good promo / marketing: “Follow the Washington Post at follow.wapo.com!”