Central Bylines

Hello Mastodon

Central Bylines is a regional online newspaper that supports citizen journalism. The aim is to publish well-written, fact-based articles and opinion pieces on subjects that are of interest to people in East Midlands, West Midlands and beyond.

Progressive, internationalist, truth to power
If you are interested in writing contact [email protected]

Nov 8, 2022 at 5:51pmWeb
Show threadJason PedlowNov 8, 2022

@centralbylines

Welcome to mastadon. It seems weird to start with but, in my experience, within a couple of days you'll start to get to grips with it.

Lots of lovely people on here too!

Show threadilmariNov 8, 2022
@centralbylines it would make sense for the bylines network to have its own instance under the bylinesnetwork.co.uk domain, so that it's easy to verify that the various outlets' accounts are genuine
Show threadFasih RanaNov 8, 2022
@ilmari @centralbylines I second this idea. Though the overhead of running a mastodon server is kinda big.
Show threadilmariNov 8, 2022
@fasih @centralbylines there are several providers that will do it for a reasonable fee, e.g. masto.host
Show threadFasih RanaNov 8, 2022
@centralbylines @ilmari @mikegalsworthy this makes sense to me. It would give bylines network control of federation (which servers you accept/block interaction with) as well as accounts created on it.
Show threadCentral BylinesNov 8, 2022

@fasih @ilmari @mikegalsworthy

Thanks, we have also WhatsApped this thread to Mike and will have a think. Silly question does this mean we would have to start again? We only joined this afternoon and the whole picking a server part baffled us a bit.

To be fair none of the tech team were setting up the accounts!

Show threadilmariNov 8, 2022
@centralbylines @fasih @mikegalsworthy you can migrate all your followers and follows over to the new account once you've created it
Show threadFasih RanaNov 8, 2022

@ilmari @centralbylines @mikegalsworthy it just means, that you would pick your own server hosted by yourselves to create these accounts. You can block other people from creating accounts on your server and only create the accounts of contributors yourself.

I think the only caveat is, you canโ€™t migrate content. Just the followers. There is also a redirect feature for accounts.

Show threadMike Galsworthy ๐ŸฆฃNov 8, 2022

@ilmari @centralbylines would definitely like to know more about this. Weโ€™re very new to Mastodon and trying to work out the structureโ€ฆ

Is this something you could teach us?

Show threadilmariNov 9, 2022
@mikegalsworthy sorry, I don't have any experience setting up a mastodon instance myself. but once you have one, the migration path is easy: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/103393780267601137
Show threadSusana, La ManchiqueraNov 8, 2022
@centralbylines welcome Byliners ๐Ÿ‘
Show threadDr Ruth YeomanNov 8, 2022
@centralbylines - Good to see you here, Bylines. Following you. Follow me back for #ProgressiveAlliance stuff. @YeomanRuth on Twitter.
Show threadCentral BylinesNov 8, 2022
@RuthYeoman now following Ruth, having only joined this afternoon, it has been quite a learning curve and phone won't start pinging away. We guess that is good news!
Show threadDr Ruth YeomanNov 8, 2022
@centralbylines - Yes. It needs some getting used to. But the cooperative model is just what we need.
Show threadJames TarryNov 8, 2022
@centralbylines assume that you cover Northamptonshire?
Show threadgavin_steven ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐Ÿ”ถNov 8, 2022
@centralbylines will each of the bylines entities have their own addresses? Looking for bylines.scotland.
Show threadMike Galsworthy ๐ŸฆฃNov 8, 2022
@Streaker @centralbylines Iโ€™ll nudge them. But yes - thatโ€™s the plan!!
Show threadgavin_steven ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐Ÿ”ถNov 9, 2022
@mikegalsworthy @centralbylines Thanks Mike
Show threadCentral BylinesNov 9, 2022
@Streaker @mikegalsworthy they are waiting for the confirmation email to arrive. They will be here soon on the @mastodon.scot server.
Show threadgavin_steven ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐Ÿ”ถNov 9, 2022
@centralbylines @mikegalsworthy Perfect. Thank you.
Show threadtroyellaNov 8, 2022

@centralbylines

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Show threadcharlyallain.Nov 8, 2022
@centralbylines followed! Good to see you here!
Show threadAlan RewNov 8, 2022
@centralbylines are the other twitter byelines-related accounts on here too? IIRC there are southern, western, central etc accounts
Show threadLa Dama Bruja ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ#GTTO #FBPENov 8, 2022
@centralbylines Way Hey ๐Ÿ‘‹ nice to see you.
Show threadRussell England ๐Ÿ’‰๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿงณ๐ŸŒปNov 9, 2022

@centralbylines Woohoo! Great to see you

For reference, there's a great little tool here that searches and attempts to match Twitter handles with Mastodon handles

It then generates a csv with the results which can be imported into Mastodon

#TwitterMigration

https://fedifinder.glitch.me