I have now found 1070 verified accounts from media organizations in the #Fediverse, but only on #Mastodon, #Flipboard, #Threads, #Bluesky, #Ghost and #Peertube.
Just one is on #Sharkey (👋🏻 @heiseBotti) and none on #Pixelfed, #Lemmy, #Piefed, #Misskey & Co. Are there really none there, or did I miss some?
I kinda think there’s 4 levels to media being here.
- having an account on some other server
- running your own server just for news feeds etc
- running your own server for staff
- posting native AP articles ala #ghost
@wjmaggos @mho @heiseBotti @fediverse We’re teetering between 2-3 with a dream of hitting 4 at some point.
In a perfect world, all media organIationa would have their own instances (tied to their domains) for each network type (threadiverse, micro logging, video, short form video) and these instances would be used for both content distribution (official NYT mastadon feed) and for validation of journalists.
The non-profit foundations that manage these networks could provide managed services to raise more money for development (beyond donations).
This is the part of the internet that we have forgotten. Everyone is supposed to be their own little island but they all connect. If I want news I shouldn’t have to go to Facebook, I should have to go to the news org.
This is why the Fediverse has been thriving by imitating monolithic platforms like Reddit or Twitter but doing so in a way that domains (aka “sites” are still all their own.
I shouldn’t have to go to Reddit to get to CNN, I should have to go to CNN to get CNN. CNN should not join Lemmy, CNN should host a Lemmy instance and have communities for topics and programs, and its users should only be people who work there. And that should all be federated out for the rest of us to interact with.
(CNN was the quickest news org name to type and I wasn’t about to use Fox as an example)
@4am not sure about Fox, but @CNN is already here, technically 😁 Just that Lemmy provides no way on viewing anything else than communities/groups and whatever that account posted in these.
There are a bunch of news accounts on Flipboard that have the federation enabled in this list. If you’re on Mastodon, Friendica, Mbin and probably Piefed too, you should be able to follow them too.
