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MastodonToday we're launching a new #Mastodon feature that will highlight writers and journalists that are active on the fediverse when their their articles are being shared.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/07/highlighting-journalism-on-mastodon/
David Schmidt@Mastodon I saw this already out in the field. Very nice feature indeed.
Latte macchiato 
@Mastodon really doing anything possible to avoid mentioning Pleroma or Misskey in blog posts, hm 
Fitik🐲🇮🇱 
Flipboard@Mastodon Fantastic initiative!
Pelle Wessman@Flipboard @Mastodon Very similar to what eg Google+ did with rel-author and what I worked on implementing into Flattr back the as well. Not sure why rel-author isn’t used 🤔 http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-author
@Flipboard @Mastodon Added a comment about it: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/30398#issuecomment-2204184781
It’s sad to not see more cooperation between #Mastodon / #Fediverse and #IndieWeb
The latter is focused on social semantics for the web and the former for social semantics for ActivityPub – when the two overlap they should coordinate – and articles are very much web pages and something the #IndieWeb knows best practices around
@Flipboard @Mastodon Google’s announcement of rel-author: https://youtu.be/FgFb6Y-UJUI?si=22F5LTFhjazuS8n4
Authorship markup
Emelia 👸🏻@Flipboard @voxpelli @Mastodon I suspect the answer to "why not rel author" is because that's just a URI iirc, not a fediverse native account?
Aeder@voxpelli @Flipboard @Mastodon AFAIK they didn't even bother asking the rest of the fediverse (Pleroma, Misskey, etc.), yet they created the "fediverse" tag. Expecting any cooperation from a project that shows Meta/Google tendencies is asking for too much I think.
Ted Johnson@Mastodon Great idea. Can I just implement the OG tag on my blog? Is that all there is to it.
Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski@HalfHeartedFanatic @Mastodon You might but it won't do a thing if you're not "approved journalist".
Sheogorath@HalfHeartedFanatic @Mastodon it's not an OG tag and apparently currently it requires manual review so it won't magically work, but there is further development going on.
@sheogorath @Mastodon Correct: It's not an OG tag. I've gone and implemented it. I'll see if I can get my site blessed by the overlords of the fediverse.
Thomas Svensson 🖖
Erik de la Reguera@tsvenson Tack, förstår inte riktigt, men verkar i vilket fall bara funka på mastodon.social än så länge
Carl Heath@erikdelareguera @tsvenson Hur det ser ut beror på vilken app du använder för att läsa mastodon. Du bör se hur det ser ut om du drar iväg till The Verge på Mastodon och kollar in deras postade artiklar, men tittar på dem via webbläsaren. Då ser du skillnaden på journalister på The Verge som har konto på Mastodon och de som inte har.
Aaron 
@Mastodon How do I get to be a part of this???
The Chaotic Good 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🖖@Aminorjourney @Mastodon @show I think you have to put this new item into your meta tags on your site:
<meta name="fediverse:creator" content=“{your full @person@domain mastodon handle here}“>
I think that’s it? I’m not sure about the “Approved publishers” part yet because I think that’s not rolled out on non-nightly builds? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Peter Butler@Mastodon This is very cool. I love to see it!
Louis Ingenthron@Mastodon That... seems like a weird priority.
Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮@LouisIngenthron @Mastodon What's weird about it?
@gamingonlinux @Mastodon Mastodon is getting the crap beaten out of it by Threads and BluSky because they have basic features that we're missing, like onboarding and quote posts.
Helping journalists (most of whom aren't even on this platform) get credit for articles where they can already put their mastodon handle at the bottom seems to me to be a strange allocation of resources.
@LouisIngenthron @Mastodon Well, it's not a race, and Threads is connecting up with the Fediverse so they will work together anyway.
As for the feature, it's actually incredibly useful and makes it even easier to find people to follow. There's no downside to it, and it's just useful to have. I don't see the problem with it.
Vladimir Hristov@gamingonlinux @LouisIngenthron @Mastodon
"They" don't let me use Linux anymore.
They broke about five laptops of mine just because I had Linux installed on them.
Thank you 💞😊
Lambert Heller@Mastodon
Thanks, wonderful idea!
Let's implement this for research articles as well. Could be implemented for anything which is being linked by its DOI-address? 🤔
In the long run: once @ORCID_Org offers a specific field for researchers' Fediverse handles (like what we at @tibosl already did for VIVO), that handle can be fetched by means of DOI/ORCID metadata.
Thanks, wonderful idea!
Let's implement this for research articles as well. Could be implemented for anything which is being linked by its DOI-address? 🤔
In the long run: once @ORCID_Org offers a specific field for researchers' Fediverse handles (like what we at @tibosl already did for VIVO), that handle can be fetched by means of DOI/ORCID metadata.
Dennis
Juan Pablo Alperin@d2ns @Lambo @tibosl Initial thought from the @PublicKnowledgeProject dev team is that this would be pretty straight-forward to do, but the feature is currently limited to one account for each publisher, which won't work just yet.
Moved to @@juancommander @d2ns @Lambo @tibosl @PublicKnowledgeProject We've also prototyped ORCID Single Sign-On (SSO) integration for Bonfire, along with a feature that automatically fetches and displays research papers from a user's ORCID account in a dedicated tab on their profile. More here: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/openscience_network/
Currently co-designing more features with a network of scientists @open_science and keen to collaborate with existing efforts :)
Currently co-designing more features with a network of scientists @open_science and keen to collaborate with existing efforts :)
Matthew 
@Mastodon Would there be a way to verify that it is that exact user that wrote the article, similar to the
rel="me" tag?
Justin Ferrell@Mastodon nice @devondundee cameo! 🚀
Devon Dundee@developerjustin @Mastodon So cool, thanks for letting me know!
@Mastodon how does support for this show up in the API? I'd love to add a flag to @mastowatch so #MastoAdmin can show off their adoption!
Andy Piper@developerjustin @Mastodon @mastowatch the card on a status now has an authors attribute (an array which currently always has one item), which has the properties name, url and account. Will be documenting this properly shortly.
@andypiper @Mastodon @mastowatch thank you! Is there a property on the instance object showing if this is available on a given server?
@developerjustin @Mastodon @mastowatch ah, no, that's not there that I know of - I'll make a note on that one.
Phillip de Wet@Mastodon Journalists are, of course, entirely without ego. And none have ever felt the need to build a personal following just ICE.
But somehow I think this feature could be a winner.
But somehow I think this feature could be a winner.
Anders Puck Nielsen@Mastodon Great initiative. But frankly I think what journalists really want are quote posts.
@anderspuck @Mastodon these are on the roadmap!
@andypiper @Mastodon Yes, but they have been on the roadmap for a year and still not been moved to the “In Progress” section.
Víctor R. Ruiz@anderspuck @Mastodon Yes! And not only them.
Jay 🆘> Of course, it’s also part of Mastodon’s API, so we expect to see support among the vast array of third party apps for Mastodon as well.
This is very cool.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/07/highlighting-journalism-on-mastodon/
This uses a new OpenGraph tag:
<meta name="fediverse:creator" content="(at)Gargron(at)mastodon.social" />
It would be very interesting to see #Bluesky support this OpenGraph tag, too, even for Bluesky handles.
<meta name="fediverse:creator" content="@example.bsky.social" />
Braw ☕🏳️🌈
mokane@Mastodon But you still can't post documents.
Here's an extremely quick-and-dirty way to get this new Mastodon author OpenGraph meta tag on your #WordPress site.
Note that this currently only works for pre-approved domains, so you won't see your little author icon chip just yet.
John Johnston
Jan Vlug
Distante@Mastodon This is a great feature.
You should also add a warning under the links of inadequate media: "this media outlet is funded by a totalitarian state and often spreads disinformation, read https://euvsdisinfo.eu/learn/" or something like that. Of course, the administrator (or user) can disable such notifications.
We also need mobile apps to publish posts when the user has a bad internet connection. Now the post can get stuck loading and disappear forever
Lionel Jeannerat
Beeks@andypiper @Mastodon society is about to crumble Andy, we need them *now*. 😜