Gregory's Server
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@Geniusak , setting up a #Mastodon server is not that complicated. All these news organizations already have other servers, so adding this as a service would not add to much to the complexity. You want to be able to identify both the organization and people working there. That is rather easy to do with Mastodon.  Yes the admin overhead of a separate organization to run a joint server and verify users would far outweigh IT overhead of their own instance.   @Helderweb @jon I'm trying to get my company to do so. It's tough in a big company because there are so many competing projects and work tends to get siloed. But I'm starting to get acknowledgment from the mucky-mucks that Twitter is a problem that we need to address. There's an element of wanting to hang onto what they know drives traffic, but there's also a lot of inertia to overcome.  Wordpress is removing twitter, and both tumblr and wordpress are trying to accomodate joining the fediverse, Mastodonia.  @jon This. And every reporter associated with those servers would automatically be verified.  @jon It bothers me that two highly respected news organizations are so slow to change their ways. They usually know where their audience is. Mastodon is seen as the new kid on the block and both NPR and BBC are well established on that bird thingy. They probably don't want to jump /too/ quickly from established to disruptive technology. @jon I worked for a national newspaper for ten years in technology, and while I think it’s a great idea, I don’t think it’ll happen. Just not enough vision in the tech space and with the problems with advertising/support there’s little appetite for creative thinking. Hopefully I’ll be proven wrong, but that’s what my time there tells me. I suspect that there are rules about what the #BBC can and cannot do, with respect to this, as well as political obstacles from the government. The BBC has a bit of a history of getting ahead of the commercial competition on technology only to be reined in by government pressure. Then there's the distinction between the BBC itself and subsidiaries like BBC Studios.  @MaryPot @jon https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-business-model/ I searched the help for Bing and for Search Engines and did not find anything explaining it. I did find a lot of users having big problems getting rid of Bing, though. I'm not going to spend hours trying to find out why a shiney new browser, with history back to when Opera was a good thing, chooses to force users to use Bing. Very disappointing, and the help section is a mess and half. Good thing I didn't uninstall my other browser. 😞  If anyone here still has a Twitter account, they should tweet that toot and tag them both. BBC just got tagged "government sponsored media" and they are LIVID. I think we all have historical experience with angry Englishmen 😅 |
@jon indeed.