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.
This is a DRAFT. I am new to Mastodon and not a techy. I’ll be reading the comments so I can correct any accuracies and include things I forgot. I’ve been using Mastodon since November 4, but I am going out on a limb with a prediction: Mastodon (or the Mastodon model) is the future … Some thoughts about Mastodon Read More »