Jon S. von TetzchnerApr 9, 2023

It is time for the #BBC and #NPR to set up shop on #Mastodon. Same applies to all other serious news institutions.

They should set up their own servers. They have the means to do so and it just makes sense.

#Twitter

Show threadGeniusakApr 9, 2023
@jon I agree heartily. But individual servers might be a lot of overhead for each entity. I think there might be benefit to a coalition of news companies setting up one server for themselves.
Show threadJon S. von TetzchnerApr 9, 2023

@Geniusak , setting up a #Mastodon server is not that complicated. All these news organizations already have other servers, so adding this as a service would not add to much to the complexity.

You want to be able to identify both the organization and people working there. That is rather easy to do with Mastodon.

Show threadEric Lawton

@jon

@Geniusak

Yes the admin overhead of a separate organization to run a joint server and verify users would far outweigh IT overhead of their own instance.

Apr 10, 2023 at 1:00amWeb