Jeff JarvisThe Washington Post is the newspaper most likely to try stuff and I'm delighted that @jeremybowers says they're spinning up a Mastodon instance as we speak. Bravo.
naught101@jeffjarvis @jeremybowers just now he said they may not be:
Jeremy Bowers (@[email protected])
@[email protected] @[email protected] Jury still out on if we host an instance, but we're actively working on adding links to profiles for our journalists! Trust is important!
Jeremy Bowers@jeffjarvis @naught101 Eh, we’re working through the pros and cons. We’re bullish on Mastodon though.
@jeremybowers @naught101 If you beat The Times and The Guardian to having an instance I promise to praise you across all social media, relentlessly!
Exiled New Yorker- ConnieWell, you *could* take a poll and see how many subscribers and/or readers you have here but I’ve heard lately social media poll results are suspicious.
@jeremybowers So my fondest Christmas wish for the Post and Mastodon is to provide share-on-Mastodon buttons on stories. Discussed this last night on This Week in Google & @leo showed how it's working on the Advent of Code. Users do need to enter their instance but then it's easy. It would be a great service for users. It would send a strong message about the Fediverse. Please, Santa?
@jeffjarvis @leo Code freeze is real but this is a good next step for us to consider!
ASP ¯\_(ツ)_/¯The folks at NYT would be pissed if you and your colleagues from WAPO would beat them on this 💪 (would link to Mastodon profiles if there were any)
@ASP @jeffjarvis @leo Nah, they’re good folks over there (and my former coworkers!) and I am sure that they’re working on it just like we are.
This is awsome! 🤩
And kudos to you for those unprompted nice words about your former coworkers. 👍
mʕ•ﻌ•ʔm bitPickupI'll do the same if you setup #friendica for the journalists and #mastodon for subscribers of the Washington Post!
Zhi Zhu 🕸️@jeremybowers @jeffjarvis @naught101
As a long time subscriber to the Washington Post, I really hope you create your own instance here. Several other news orgs have already done so.
@BylinesNetwork
@TexasObserver
@TucsonSentinel
@restofworld
Maybe talk to them and see how it's going for them?
Texas Observer@ZhiZhu @jeremybowers @jeffjarvis @naught101 @BylinesNetwork @TucsonSentinel @restofworld we're happy to chat with almost anyone in the media about this ... obviously we're a much smaller newsroom which I'm sure makes a huge difference in this kind of thing :)
DSmith_Tucson