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

@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

@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 😅

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