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.
william.maggos@jeffjarvis @ianhillmedia @dansinker @adamdavidson
it might be hard to rationalize at this point, but if your organization has a website, it will want to have a fediverse server. if you'd be fine with a page on Facebook (remember AOL keywords?), maybe not. it's the same level of independence.
@wjmaggos @jeffjarvis @dansinker @adamdavidson Apples to oranges. I’m not going to argue that Facebook is great, but it’s the second-most-popular social network and it’s where our core audience lives. We can optimize the service we provide our community there within existing resources. Also, and importantly, our journalists own their Facebook Pages. Our news org is not responsible for their data, as we would be if we started an instance.
Keith 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇮🇪🇺🇦A fediverse server also allows publishing to the web that anyone can access whether they have a fediverse account or not.
Compare that to Twitter, where Twitter forces you to log in at some point. (Possibly the same with Facebook.) Also, one can cross post to Twitter and the fediverse simultaneously.
Hedge your bets. And put your thumb on the scale of fediverse.