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.
Since this is getting some traction, I'll append with two additional thoughts:
I actually *do* think news orgs should spin up an instance for themselves, because [email protected] looks goofy, but reporters should set up where they want.
And "where they want" shouldn't probably all be on the same server bc that becomes a real tempting honeypot for defederation battles.
Cyber Yuki