Alright, let us post something here to start off. A bit of tech policy perhaps

India has something called the Draft Telecom Bill, which is a proposed law for which public comments are invited. ONLY 4 DAYS are left

You need to look at this bill. It proposes issuing licenses for all telecom services. It redefines telecom service to ANY MACHINE TO MACHINE communication

So your email, whatsapp, telegram, signal, your twitter/mastodon/reddit, any messaging app on any random website, zoom/skype

Early worries I have as a journalist using Mastodon for #journalism:

1) Subpoenas & source protection: You're at the mercy of whoever operates your instance. I'm guessing most smaller instance admins aren't also lawyering up to protect newsgathering.

2) The owner of your instance can read your DMs. Be careful.

3) Publishers could effectively verify journalists by running instances from their official domains. They could surveil their journalists there too. Not every publisher is ethical.