@darnell @dylan @jeremybmerrill @zubakskees while this isn't a bad suggestion, it is a limiting one.

The argument I've seen against it is if the reporters move to another publication, they don't get to keep their social media without having to move instances, which means they leave their old content behind even if they are allowed to initiate a move and take their followers.

There are pros and cons of both, to be fair.

@darnell That's a lot of work though. As I said, there's pros and cons to having a newsroom run instance vs anywhere else on the fediverse, so mostly just wanted to squeak up so it's an informed choice.

Personally, I'd like to see the news sites post their articles on a long form activitypub compatible front end, and verify the reporters and other staff on whatever instance they're on.

Then people can follow the journos and the publication directly as they prefer.

@darnell That would be awesome. I installed the activitypub plugin on my wp, but need to poke at it more.

I need to figure out how I broke it, as I got it so people can find *this* account searching any handle @ my domain on mastodon, but not finding my blog when searching the handle the plugin says should find it.