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Tamitha

@Mastodon "For now, if you’re part of a news organization, please reach out to us at hello@joinmastodon.org so we can enable it for your website."

So what does that mean for other instances? Do they need to email each admin/mod team?

2 July at 18:18 | Wall-to-wall | Open on indiepocalypse.social
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Lionir

@tamitha @Mastodon I really don't understand why it'd ever need to be manually-approved. This is never true for any other embed/meta information. This feels pretty strange.

2 July at 18:38 | Open on hachyderm.io
Matthew

@lio@hachyderm.io My only guess is that they don't want bad-actors pretending to be that author of the article and abused it.

@tamitha@indiepocalypse.social @Mastodon@mastodon.social

2 July at 18:52 | Open on blahaj.zone
Cysio :verified_gay:​

@tamitha @Mastodon

> To prevent potential abuse (malicious websites could "frame" unknowing users by listing them as authors) this feature will only be available to publishers that have been approved for trending by each server's moderation team.

So your admin needs to approve the domain for trending (/admin/trends/links/publishers)

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p

2 July at 19:15 | Open on mastodon.cysioland.pl
Tamitha

@me @Mastodon IE, they would need to reach out to every instance individually.

2 July at 19:16 | Open on indiepocalypse.social
Cysio :verified_gay:​

@tamitha @Mastodon or instances could approve sites as they appear in the admin panel (I don't see the ability to proactively, manually add a domain to the approved list)

2 July at 19:17 | Open on mastodon.cysioland.pl
Tamitha

@me It feels like we're talking about two different things here. I'm not talking about approving trending links or domains. I'm talking about the part in the press release for it says if you're a news organization email us.

2 July at 19:19 | Open on indiepocalypse.social
Cysio :verified_gay:​

@tamitha and I've described how it works on the technical side (based on @Gargron's own words from the pull request), confirming that it needs to be dealt with on the instance side, for each instance.

2 July at 19:20 | Open on mastodon.cysioland.pl
spaduf

@tamitha @me I believe that's just the procedure for mastodon.social. Each instance can have it's own criteria for approval.

3 July at 0:17 | Open on hachyderm.io
FediThing 🏳️‍🌈

@tamitha @Mastodon

When the "news" trending feature (without the author credit) first launched, instances decided for themselves which sources they wanted appearing based on their instance policies. The actual sources didn't need to email anyone, the admins simply decided based upon the reputations of the sources.

As far as I can tell from the github it's the same situation with the author credit, but the Mastodon blog post has done a really bad job of explaining it by adding the part about emailing them. The blog ought to be about Mastodon software, not mastodon.social, but the blog is treating the two things as one thing.

@tamitha @Mastodon

When the "news" trending feature (without the author credit) first launched, instances decided for themselves which sources they wanted appearing based on their instance policies. The actual sources didn't need to email anyone, the admins simply decided based upon the reputations of the sources.

3 July at 9:34 | Open on social.chinwag.org
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