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#23This 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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#24Hi! 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.
Great news! But please run it on your main domain, as something like social.washingtonpost.com rather than washingtonpost.social.
Running the instance under your own well-known domain equals instant verification and trust, whereas anyone can set up a .social.
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Comments have fairly stringent expectations compared to other sites, consider conforming more carefully to the guidelines[0], and you can post whatever you like.
Not to be accusatory, but undersubstantiated hot-takes are frowned upon, because they don't result in productive conversation.
Think debate / examine, rather than protest, basically.
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#27Hi! 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.
Does the AGPL-ness of Mastodon potentially pose any problems?
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Comments have fairly stringent expectations compared to other sites, consider conforming more carefully to the guidelines[0], and you can post whatever you like. Not to be accusatory, but undersubstantiated hot-takes are frowned upon, because they don't result in productive conversation. Think debate / examine, rather than protest, basically. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think calling attention to WaPo being owned by the world's richest man ought to be in bounds, though. It's not really a hot take.
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#29Given 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.
As I recall, Varnish was also written for a newspaper. I think it's pretty common for older web technology.
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This is the same Washington Post that published an article[0] claiming "Shark Week" is racist, right? Sounds like a political agenda.
[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/12/05/shark-week-...