Jen SimmonsDec 16, 2022

Every news outlet should stand up a Mastondon instance for their reporters & staff.

It’ll be great to see [email protected] or whatever domain they want to use.

Built in verification. Every reporter for the Washington Post on a washpo domain. Every reporter for the New York Times on an NYTimes domain. Etc, etc.

Plus the “local” feed for each instance becomes a feed of all the posts from that institution mixed together — providing extra discovery.

Show threadJake Jarvis Dec 16, 2022
@jensimmons one thousand percent! and account migration easily solves the whole "what about if/when they get a different job?" predicament.
Show threadJake OuelletteDec 16, 2022
@jake @jensimmons I like this, though I am a little worried that (1) a company wouldn't allow your redirect if they fire you (2) what if they contract to multiple places and/or want to pitch their substack from their "official" account?
Show threadPusher Of Pixels (old account)Dec 16, 2022

@Jakeout @jake @jensimmons reputable places won't do that.

There are issues with a federated system that will be hiccups, compared with a seamless single silo, no argument there.

But it really is a pretty well thought out system I think. Built in flexibility on many fronts.

And as for accounts, people had multiple Twitter accounts, no different here

Show threadPamDec 16, 2022
@pixelpusher220 @Jakeout @jake @jensimmons hm, twitter was somewhat reputable and now, not. Perhaps normalize posting on multiple instances at once?
Show threadJake OuelletteDec 16, 2022
@chipchirp @pixelpusher220 it'd be nice if the user journey of mastodon had some built in affordances for this, follow an account whose identity is "administered" by another account, potentially off-instance. This would enable backups for if an instance went away, too
Show threadAntonio PiccolboniDec 16, 2022
@Jakeout @chipchirp @pixelpusher220 You may be interested in the new project Dorsey is pushing, bluesky. It seems to focus very much on account portability and permanence. Still on the drawing board though.
Show threadPusher Of Pixels (old account)Dec 16, 2022

@piccolbo @Jakeout @chipchirp

Another private silo isn't the correct answer.

Federated, distributed is the solution. Literally what email is, but for social media

Show threadAntonio PiccolboniDec 16, 2022
@pixelpusher220 @Jakeout @chipchirp If you are talking about bluesky, it's a protocol like mastodon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky_(protocol) I am not endorsing it, just something to watch that could address concerns about portability of accounts.
Bluesky (protocol) - Wikipedia

Show threadPusher Of Pixels (old account)Dec 16, 2022

@piccolbo @Jakeout @chipchirp ah, interesting, the posts I'd seen described it as a site /Twitter competitor.

Glad to see the description you linked! Interoperable with ActivityPub is a good goal. Tho I'm guessing Elmo isn't going to make Twitter interoperate now lol.

Show threadSweetsunray
@pixelpusher220 @piccolbo @Jakeout @chipchirp I suspect Dorsey is working on this protocol to get rid of cookies and thereby circumvent the EU’s gdpr to collect data
Dec 16, 2022 at 8:24pmWeb