@jensimmons brilliant and sensible idea 🙌🏻

@jensimmons I was thinking the same. It's the perfect use case for an instance name (namespace) attribution. Solving who from where. Outsiders of FamousJournal can't be members, becomes members until they are no longer. Like email.

Academics too.

I can't wait to see this.

@jensimmons I think that's how the internet archive did it. Very smart!

@jensimmons considering it

@jensimmons was thinking the same thing. Validation by namespace. It feels so clean.

@jensimmons I hadn’t considered local feed angle, but that does seem like an enticing bonus for media organizations and their readers. I really like that idea.

@jensimmons yesssss!!!! The same would be great for local govt entities being able to create and manage their online presence/ identity more. Ex:
parksandrec@.atlantaga.gov
health@.nyc.gov

Would require experimentation to see what the public actually is comfortable with, but I’d love to see the exploration

@jensimmons Every university should have their mastodon instance, and an account created automatically for each of their faculty member and student.

@jensimmons The problem is that ties journalists to their employers. They don't own their social media history, and even ability to migrate followers is at the whim of ex employer.

@jensimmons yeah please.. This would be great

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This is an excellent idea.

#Media Pay attention.

@jensimmons Love this. Though I do wonder how many folks might eventually prefer to have their own stable identity, especially if they were already established here on an existing instance.

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Love the idea. Question: How would such instances handle moderation?

@jensimmons Brilliant! This is a great idea.

@jensimmons building this right now for Globe journalists.

@jensimmons Yes! Badly needed over here. Difficult to find news in here other than what's been x-posted from the hell site.

@jensimmons That’s such a brilliant idea.

@jensimmons - Image.

@jensimmons Maybe they will listen to you.

@jensimmons From what little I know of this platform/system(just learning)... I LOVE this idea!!!

@jensimmons Hey @sltrib, whatcha waiting for?

@jensimmons @Gargron great idea.

@jensimmons i feel like social.washingtonpost.com would be a good server handle too

@jensimmons I work at a T.V. station, and am pushing our social media department daily. The chief of the department is a musk rat tho, so it's an uphill climb.

@jensimmons What happens when far right "news" outlets do the same? Help me play this out a little in my mind.

@jensimmons the use case that a federated namespace seems built for.

@jensimmons agreed. Launched ours today. mastodon.macstories.net 😊

@jensimmons What would be the best move when someone switches employer? Archive the account? Migrate? Could they migrate without redirect?

@jensimmons this is exactly what I want to see!

@jensimmons the byline news group have done this, see @BylinesNetwork

@jensimmons of note, news agencies tend to have established legal representation in place. A specter of that legal concern was floating around earlier today about instance admins having no experience in dealing with subpoenas and other bully challenges.

@jensimmons and then I'd be able to find and follow them again!

@jensimmons from what i I understand, it wouldn’t cost much out of pocket for them either. Mastadon doesn’t require strong hardware to run.

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1) I love this and
2) Each reporter should keep a public "personal account" and archive.org their stuff just in case they get a vengeful ex-employer.

@jensimmons Love it! How great if news outlets and sources did this.

@jensimmons I love the idea. Some smaller orgs can share an instance. Validate yourself.

@jensimmons Is there a list of service providers who can help them set up an instance?

@jensimmons Yes, yes, yes. I’ve been waiting for the collective journalist alternative social media. Excellent suggestion!

@jensimmons And they can pay for their own instance, relieving the rest of the site.

@jensimmons this is a great idea …I was noticing today there is a high proliferation of accounts bearing famousnewsname on here that at best are ad hoc RSS feeds and at worst imposter accounts, standing up your own instance is a marvelous way to reinforce authenticity/ aid discovery etc as you say

@jensimmons government officias should do this too. Built in verification of .gov

@jensimmons that's actually a great idea, would love to see that for bigger non-news orgs too, ones that have more than one public facing acct

@jensimmons brilliant 👏 👌

@jensimmons this is an interesting idea, having the outlet host their own content.

@jensimmons I think this is a great idea

@jensimmons @BlackAzizAnansi I’ve been saying!

@jensimmons Govs too. Europeans already doing this:
@BylinesNetwork
@EU_Commission

@jensimmons @wood I love it here, but as a journalist I would be extremely wary about creating a social account on a server controlled by my employer, who would then set my moderation rules and control my data. From the other side, most news orgs are local and have extremely limited resources. Those resources should be dedicated to serving their local residents, most of whom aren’t on Twitter, much less the fediverse.

@jensimmons in that spirit, it seems, the European Commission have set up their own instance https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission

@jensimmons Yes please. then I can ban every one owned by a billionaire and/or fascist.

@jensimmons this. so much, this.