Every news outlet should stand up a Mastondon instance for their reporters & staff.

It’ll be great to see [email protected] or whatever domain they want to use.

Built in verification. Every reporter for the Washington Post on a washpo domain. Every reporter for the New York Times on an NYTimes domain. Etc, etc.

Plus the “local” feed for each instance becomes a feed of all the posts from that institution mixed together — providing extra discovery.

I'm a fairly new Mastodon user. I've been here less than a week.

Earlier I promised a more thought out explanation on why it seems to me that the Mastodon model can cure the worst evils of social media and create a genuine and workable public sphere.

A draft is here:
https://terikanefield.com/can-the-mastodon-model-cure-the-worst-evils-of-social-media/

It's a draft because there is SO much I don't know.