👋 Hello #fediverse! I'm going into a meeting at 4ET to talk about our newsroom's social media options.
If you think our station and other NPR stations should have a Mastodon server and a broader presence in the #fediverse, pls boost this post. If you have thoughts, please reply, I want to hear them!
Probably for a larger organization the first step is to have individual journalists join sites that reasonably reflect their beat and are compatible with your organizations values and then you can extended your current sites to provide domain validation links to indicate their official status.
As an example, the Washington Post did that and wrote up some information about how and issues they faced.
https://washpost.engineering/heres-how-the-washington-post-verified-its-journalists-on-mastodon-7b5dbc96985c
It looks like NPR has working RSS/ATOM feed and enterprising individuals can setup their own gateways.
https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/110188134117109445
Hopefully you don't mind unofficial mirrors?
Also maybe instead of just setting up your own mastodon server, maybe for a news agency, something more similar to the wordpress activity pub plugin might make more sense?
https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/
(there might be performance issues with the plugin, but that was also before Automatic got directly involved)
In many ways Mastodon is designed to encourage conversations, is that an appropriate way to interact with published news stories?
It does seem like readers do love adding comments, but some people can get really obnoxious, which can make comments a challenge to deal with.
There's also some issues for journalism where there's a lot of freelancers who don't necessarily trust their employers, and may not want to required to be on their occasional employers sites?
@alienghic
As a #Hubzilla fan, this use-case screams "Hubzilla"! Its a CMS+social messaging toolbox which allows articles, private groups, comment moderation, federation, synchronized replicas. There likely aren't that many concerns with it as a CMS; its social messaging experience cops criticism deservedly - but, hey, it has an ActivityPub plug-in that can suit commenters.
@gbhnews
