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!
@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?
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. 👍