Casey NewtonThis is such an obvious point but it is so funny to me that Elon's free-speech crusade on Twitter lasted all of six weeks before he started indiscriminately banning reporters. Like what an all-time hilarious business story
I also love that things went from "I should probably figure out a Twitter alternative" on Saturday to "My Twitter account will probably be nuked for no reason" on Thursday. What a week
Andy Baio@caseynewton your “The media will begin its divorce from Twitter” prediction came true about five minutes after you made it
Ryan Goodlett 
@andybaio @caseynewton am I missing something? Wouldn’t it be in the best interest of each media company to host their own #Mastodon instance and then post from those accounts? They would own and control their instance and it would be federated. I fully expect this to be the next step for #nytimes, #cnn, etc.
llywrch@ryangoodlett @andybaio @caseynewton Two thoughts: 1) If a media corp hosts its own Mastodon server, it can offer free, supported accounts as an incentive to subscribe, thus attracting more paying customers; 2) there shd be a way to alias accounts so for example myaccount@corp will map to [email protected]. (This cd be done especially if someone is paid to code this. As in by a company.)
Jocelyn Etienne@llywrch @ryangoodlett @andybaio @caseynewton
This debate parallels the one we have for #university hosted #instances. To go fully down the way along the values of the #fediverse, I believe one could separate powers there: unis/media groups should fund (provide servers) and independent societies run/appoint moderators of the service: in academia I suggest learned societies, for media idk - e.g. @icij ?