Dan Hon

My proposal for news organizations (and other institutions) to stand up their own mastodon instances on their domains is still getting passed around, so here's a repost.

The proposal is in 2 parts:

1. s13e17: A Proposal for News Organization Mastodon Servers and More, at https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/4230/

2. s13e18: Mastodon, or What Happens When Your Software Has Opinions And Now You Have Choices, at https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s13e18-mastodon-or-what-happens-when-your/

#mastodon #verification #trust #news #newsmedia #journalism

Nov 4, 2022 at 6:33pmWeb
Show threadSeth is PissedNov 4, 2022
@danhon Such a good idea.
Show threadnevNov 4, 2022
@danhon another thing I'd add is that there are *already* news accounts on Mastodon, mirrored from Twitter or RSS feeds—e. g. I follow @torontostar and @aljazeera.
Show threadDean Betz #🟦Nov 4, 2022
@danhon
Show threadShoq 🌿Nov 4, 2022

@danhon

I just had a discussion yesterday wondering why this wasn't happening. Obviously, it was. Very exciting.

Show threadnadin brzezinskiNov 5, 2022
@danhon excellent idea
Show threadnadin brzezinskiNov 5, 2022

@danhon

Oh and sent it to local news editor as well

Show threadKaitoNov 5, 2022
@danhon I hope they take your advice!
Show threadAlanNov 5, 2022
@danhon I think there is a bit more work to do to ensure traceability of a toot that I see back to the certificate of the server it came from but that is geeky backup to a model that will work in practice already
Show threadBadriNov 5, 2022

@danhon oh yes, I was looking for this! I've been vaguely thinking of getting Snipette (the magazine I edit) formally on the Fediverse for a while (rather than just @snipette which is unfortunately mostly crossposting).

Actually what got me stuck is I was trying to envision the publication itself as an actor on the fediverse (something like write.as) rather than, say, a Mastodon instance which is run by the publication and has it authors posting on there

Show threadBadriNov 5, 2022

@danhon here's a couple of blog posts I wrote on the topic. Unfortunately I never got back to thinking about it properly, but here it is (incidentally also in two parts):

1. Publications for the Fediverse? at https://badrihippo.writeas.com/publications-for-the-fediverse

2. Who owns the post? at https://badrihippo.writeas.com/who-owns-the-post

This would of course take a lot more investment than linking a Mastodon instance 😅

Show threadBadriNov 5, 2022
@danhon just remembered the first of those has comments on it, which you can see if you open the post within Mastodon
Show threadErikNov 5, 2022

@danhon Yes! This!

News organizations wouldn’t rely on personal Gmail accounts or gmail.com email addresses. They manage their own email host with their own washingtonpost.com domain. The same approach should extend to social media and the #fediverse supports this!

Show threadErikNov 5, 2022
@danhon I’ve also been pushing for this idea among political organizations. democrats.org and gop.com managing their own social media accounts.
Show threadKevin MarksNov 5, 2022
@danhon see also https://journa.host/@adamdavidson/109291129659267792
Show threadDan HonNov 5, 2022
@KevinMarks It is kind of disappointing/predictable how slowly e.g. unions have been to at least start an experiment here.
Show threadKevin MarksNov 5, 2022
@danhon there is a fair bit of sysadmin wrangling to set up a decent sized instance still
Show threadJohn LuskNov 8, 2022

How is there not a .list TLD?

@KevinMarks @danhon
@adamdavidson

Show threadEd PomfretNov 5, 2022
@danhon this makes so much sense!
Show threadbob Nov 5, 2022
@danhon This is an outstanding proposal. These instances would be trusted *by design*, something we desperately need.
Show threadmcuellarNov 5, 2022
@danhon not the journalist’s employers, associations should be setting them up
Show threadDan HonNov 5, 2022
@mcuellar why not both?
Show threadDave HoggNov 13, 2022

@danhon I suggested we either set up a instance for verified journalists or convince news outlets to set up their own. I have no way of proving to Mastodon that I'm the same person who has a "verified" checkmark on Twitter.

#Mastodon #VerifiedBadge #Verification #TwitterMigrate

Show threadBen KwongNov 13, 2022
@davehogg @danhon There's this
https://onemanandhisblog.com/2022/11/mastodon-servers-for-journalists/
Mastodon servers for journalists

Looking for a Mastodon Instance to begin your journey in the fediverse as a journalist? You’ve come to the right place!

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