Mastodon News Sources

General News - US and World

BBC News (World) Bot - @BBCWorld
BBC News Bot - @BBC
CNN Bot - @CNN
CNN Breaking News - @cnnbrk
DW (Deutsche Welle) News Bot - @dwnews_bot
NPR US News Bot - @NPR_USNews
NYTimes Bot - @NYTimes
Reuters Bot - @reuters
Rolling Stone - @RollingStone
The Guardian US Bot - @TheGuardian_us
Wall Street Journal Bot - @wsj
Washington Post Bot - @WashingtonPost

Tech News

Ars Technica - @arstechnica
MacRumors.com - @macrumors

@amart So these are just unofficial bots syndicating headlines? Disappointing that more of those media outlets haven't made at least some move to establish a foothold on Mastodon. :(
@SDoleMelipone @amart It seems not totally easy. Other than w twitter you will need infrastructure to set up an own instance, have to look at several legal challenges from data protection to liability, have to adapt ToS (expand existing moderation rules with rules how to deal with offenses from other instances, i.e. when to block a whole instance), staff it - for a still very very small audience. Even twitter had/has a special audience not too representative and small compared i.e. to FB.
@schneider_EF @SDoleMelipone You're exactly right - but all larger instances should be dealing with most/all of these issues already.
@amart @SDoleMelipone Definitely. But I suppose most media shouldn't and won't be hosted on "foreign" instances. Easier tech wise of course relying on host's experience. But I don't think they will share reponsibilities like content moderation. It is and was already tough defending the outsourced responsibility to big central hosts like twitter and FB, but "no names" compared to them won't look promising even if they may have more good faith than the big ones.