Don't know if you've seen this, @jeffjarvis : Tucson Sentinel has a Mastodon instance set up not just on its own domain, but as a subdomain: https://mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com/about
@danhon @jeffjarvis @TucsonSentinel
FYI @dublininquirer @faduda What think ye?
@clickhere @faduda We don't understand enough about Mastodon yet to understand why this would be something we'd want to/should do, tbh!
@dublininquirer @clickhere @faduda A few things: It is one way to get staff on Mastodon and show readers their affiliation. (Another way is rel="me".) It is a generous way to share the load in this volunteer-run ecosystem. You might consider starting an instance for your community to foster conversation, as I believe is journalism's first job. And you look cool.
@jeffjarvis We're very very small. We've only three full-time staff, and two part-time, and we publish weekly, 7-10 stories a week. And we're not very cool :-/ Would it still make sense for us?
@dublininquirer Not at first, I agree. The fact that you are here and learning is the best first step.
@jeffjarvis @dublininquirer Honestly can't even see larger Irish news orgs commuting to their own instances any time soon. Expense of running and staffing servers will be a limiting factor, as will potential legal issues around GDPR and our insanely expensive defamation laws.
@faduda @jeffjarvis @dublininquirer
No need to open them to the public. Our email server isn't open to public signups. But using domain-connected accounts indicates that a user is who they claim to be.
