Early worries I have as a journalist using Mastodon for #journalism:
1) Subpoenas & source protection: You're at the mercy of whoever operates your instance. I'm guessing most smaller instance admins aren't also lawyering up to protect newsgathering.
2) The owner of your instance can read your DMs. Be careful.
3) Publishers could effectively verify journalists by running instances from their official domains. They could surveil their journalists there too. Not every publisher is ethical.
@GeePawHill From what I gather, fediverse etiquette says not to do auto-cross posting. This also makes sense to me.
@testobsessed Big move indeed. I joined twitter just a few months after you. Have not yet made any moves to remove my presence there. Will see. Fediverse certainly has a lot of the fun, early feel like early twitter.
@freemo @RonJeffries @GeePawHill
Update: Ron just told me (via twitter lol) that he did see my @ toots. So maybe it’s only the following that’s borked.
@freemo Do you know of any federation issues between qoto.org and mastodon.social?
I’m trying to follow a couple of my folks who are on that server. They don’t see my follow coming, nor even a follow request.
From my side, it shows that my follow request is Pending.
They also don’t see it when I @ mention them (@RonJeffries and @GeePawHill)
Do these issues sound familiar to you?
@RonJeffries Nope.
Or, maybe? Now it says that I’m following you. But then it said that before. And then it said my follow was Pending.
@RonJeffries I did not have a profile photo when I first tried to follow you.
Now I have one. I’ll cancel my follow request and try again.
@GeePawHill Hey there!
@freemo Good to know. Thank you!
@trinsec Thanks. Now my Home feed is showing properly. Seems to have taken a while to get going.
@jessitron Seems likely. @jessitron I’m available to pair-troubleshoot over Zoom, if you’d like.
Dang it—already made my first annoying typo in a toot. The prior should be “I remember WHEN twitter.com…”
Hmph.
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