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Washington Post is working on its own Mastodon instance
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#12This 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
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#14The nice people at Financial Times Alphaville also have their own instance: https://alphaville.club/
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#15Hi! 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.
What is your strategy? Some obvious wishes would be
- organic fact-based journalism, free from narrative manipulation
- transparent security to protect individual sources, is the instance accessible? can extremely precise/leaky details, like timestamps be clamped? or even perhaps tools to thwart stylometry
- facilitating and amplifying quality discourse
- novel UX - does "read aloud" work on the page
- permalink integrity, can the backend meaningfully serve the postings for a decade or so?
- facilitating reporting, citizen/snapmap model this, except maybe in terms of osint data
Also,... serif?
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#16Given 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?
I believe OP's point was that historically journalism organizations have had a positive impact on open source tools. Not that they are directly related.
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#17Hi! 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.
+1 on this. Having more services talking on the protocol level would be fantastic.
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#19Hi! 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.
What is your strategy? Some obvious wishes would be - organic fact-based journalism, free from narrative manipulation - transparent security to protect individual sources, is the instance accessible? can extremely precise/leaky details, like timestamps be clamped? or even perhaps tools to thwart stylometry - facilitating and amplifying quality discourse - novel UX - does "read aloud" work on the page - permalink inte…
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What is your strategy? Some obvious wishes would be - organic fact-based journalism, free from narrative manipulation - transparent security to protect individual sources, is the instance accessible? can extremely precise/leaky details, like timestamps be clamped? or even perhaps tools to thwart stylometry - facilitating and amplifying quality discourse - novel UX - does "read aloud" work on the page - permalink inte…
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