Washington Post is working on its own Mastodon instance
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#2Given that the Django web app framework was invented for a newspaper (Lawrence Journal-World) I have high hopes this will potentially provide a way for employed journalists to federate, as well as contribute to the underlying open source project.
Re: Washington Post is working on its own Mastodon instance
#3Given that the Django web app framework was invented for a newspaper (Lawrence Journal-World) I have high hopes this will potentially provide a way for employed journalists to federate, as well as contribute to the underlying open source project.
Mastodon is written in Rails, I think. What makes you say that it will be an instance written in Django?
Re: Washington Post is working on its own Mastodon instance
#4Hi! Jeremy from The Post here. We’re still evaluating what it would mean for us to run an instance. But we’re definitely adding rel=me to our author profile pages ASAP.
Re: Washington Post is working on its own Mastodon instance
#5This is a really good opportunity for them. A large set of Twitters powerusers are journalists, so it makes sense that a Twitter competitor would be backed by a major newspaper. I would be funny to see Bezos owning Elon without even trying
Re: Washington Post is working on its own Mastodon instance
#6Hi! Jeremy from The Post here. We’re still evaluating what it would mean for us to run an instance. But we’re definitely adding rel=me to our author profile pages ASAP.
Really exciting to see. I remember when y'all started posting on reddit when they launched the profile page feature. Seems like you're always willing to try out new things. I'm hoping Mastodon catches on and replaces Twitter.
Re: Washington Post is working on its own Mastodon instance
#7Hi! Jeremy from The Post here. We’re still evaluating what it would mean for us to run an instance. But we’re definitely adding rel=me to our author profile pages ASAP.
in theory you don't even need to run Mastodon. I don't know how adaptable your own CMS is but a forward thinking org would skate where the puck is going to be in terms of supporting the ActivityPub protocol.
you may want to be getting in touch with folks like Evan Prodromou or Christine Lemmer-Webber for their guidance.
Re: Washington Post is working on its own Mastodon instance
#8Hi! Jeremy from The Post here. We’re still evaluating what it would mean for us to run an instance. But we’re definitely adding rel=me to our author profile pages ASAP.
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