Dan SinkerNewsrooms should not spin up instances for their reporters partially because this is too new to dedicate strapped staff to, partially because layoffs mean reporters would lose their timelines bc you can't migrate posts, partially because newsrooms are *already* not great at social media policies, and mostly because the problem it ostensibly solves, verification, can be done by just sticking rel=me into author pages and letting reporters self-verify super easily wherever they set up shop here.
Jeff Jarvis@dansinker Yes to all but... news organizations should see an ethical obligation to share the load in a federated universe. They benefit from social media; they should pay back.
@jeffjarvis there are a lot of ethical obligations newsrooms *should* see but don't, I'd put the fediverse pretty low down on that list tbh.
ianhillmedia@dansinker @jeffjarvis What Dan said. Plus, what do you see as the benefits that news orgs are gaining from the fediverse ATM that would justify the investment?
@ianhillmedia @dansinker Sigh. In a federated universe, people share the load. I am using money from my center at CUNY to support the out-of-pocket costs of @adamdavidson starting journa.host because the fediverse is run by such volunteers. We in news media will benefit from this federated ecosystem--no longer subject to the whims of insane moguls--and should pay back. Everything isn't about us and our pathetic bottom lines.
@jeffjarvis @dansinker @adamdavidson Is there a link to donate to support journa.host yet??? I asked about that on here awhile back; the reply was “a website is coming soon!” I love it here and I’m happy to support it, but I’m just one of a small number of journalists from my news org who are here. Starting a server to help share the load doesn’t make sense when you’re not really adding to the load.
@jeffjarvis @dansinker @adamdavidson Seriously, help me help you. If you give me a link to donate I will share it, spread it, encourage people to give and, of course, give myself.