Central BylinesNov 8, 2022

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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
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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 Rana
@ilmari @centralbylines I second this idea. Though the overhead of running a mastodon server is kinda big.
Nov 8, 2022 at 6:10pmWeb
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 can’t migrate content. Just the followers. There is also a redirect feature for accounts.