hey #fediverse
so I’ve been thinking about this for a long time
at some point yr humble fediverse servant is going to get called into a meeting to justify how I am spending my time over here
& I suspect saying “listen this is the most fun I’ve had on social media since early Tumblr” is not the move
This is all to say: if you want local #news here, follow us 😁.
If we get this working I think other news orgs. will follow.
@gbhnews A case to make for the business types, too - for an organization, having an instance with a domain name is the blue check of the Fediverse. Since you're on mastodon.social, you could be faking. Probably not, but you could be.
In addition, you would have the sweet traffic metrics, directly, that your bean counters so earnestly desire. Having accounts per-show would segment your metrics appropriately. There's really all kinds of wins to be had here.
@dl Yes! I work in public media, so we're not as relentlessly numbers-focused as commercial media is. But we do try to be good stewards of the resources that our members give us via supporting us. I mean, even one server is a whole lotta tote bags! (Sorry, had to get an NPR joke in there somewhere).
I feel like I signed up to get on the waiting list for some Mastodon analytics app...shucks, now I forget the name. It will come to me.
gbhnews
Daniel Lowe