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 threadAlexLapins
@Jakeout @chipchirp @pixelpusher220 That could be a pro and a con. If part of what you're being paid for is social media posting, the ability to migrate the account elsewhere is a bad thing (you've given exclusive distribution rights to another party, so can't post it yourself). I like the administered idea, though, particularly if the indicator led you to that account. #identity seems a little tricky on mastodon, since it's tied to dns ownership, and I haven't seen mention of a single instance being able to host multiple domains on the same instance. Not even sure what that would look like.
Dec 17, 2022 at 2:13amWeb