I find it troubling that journalists let a single ad-funded business take over and centralize this function, and took so long to realize it was a bad idea :/
> Twitter has been my second home for more than a decade. It’s where I post articles, read articles by other journalists, and keep tabs on researchers and newsmakers. Long ago, Twitter replaced the newswires—AP, Reuters, etc.—that I used to keep open in a tab on my computer desktop.
https://themarkup.org/newsletter/hello-world/mastodons-moment
This is equally disturbing, for similar reasons. So much power over the organs of public truth-making in so few hands :/
> a realization that we in journalism had just outsourced that whole [identity verification] process, that whole decision-making, to whoever happened to work at Twitter. As a profession, we didn’t think, or at least I wasn’t part of any larger conversations, about the verification process. We just trusted that there was some office at Twitter that was making the right calls.
> Now, would we make that decision a month from now? I don’t know. I don’t think it’s appropriate for me to get into specifics, but we’ve had some tricky edge cases. Inherently, it’s tricky.
... and now you've replicated the problem you identified with Titter. Fortunately, there are other instances specifically for journalists so verification gatekeeping role isn't as centralized as it was there. But the best solution is for journalists to be @journalist@PublishingComp.any, not to have them all on one server.
@strypey
> @journalist@publishingCompany.com
Some journalists acquire a reputation independent of their employer. Some are employed by more than 1 organization. Self-hosting seems worth the effort, assuming they have a backup discipline. They would get a blog etc. along with it if running Epicyon for example.
@tetrislife I get your point, but in this case publishingCompany.com would be the domain name of their own professional website, instead of that of their current employer(s). For instance @george@social.monbiot.com, instead of @georgemonbiot@social.theguardian.com