Joshua Wood @wood@qoto.org

I’ve always favored subscriptions over Twitter’s advertising-based revenue model. Now I see what was apparent all along: they’ll take your data AND charge you for it.

Who watches the watchers watching the watchers?

Shocking that Home Depot is top of the list of Fortune 500s who have given money to election deniers. https://projects.propublica.org/fortune-500-company-election-deniers-jan-6/

Not saying there isn’t room for an industry-focused server, but that’s a bit different.

Another thought… there are already local-area servers, i.e. for a city or regional area. Maybe that’s where local/independent journalists should register, rather than on a dedicated instance. The purpose of local journalism is to serve the local community, after all.

I suppose that's the case with any community, though.

Moderation and security seem like the two biggest hurdles for something like this, assuming anyone would join.

@nick yeah, I’d thought of that too. Good idea.

Idea: this could be similar to a professional association like NPPA or ASMP, open to anyone who agrees to the Code of Conduct and Code of Ethics. I'm an NPPA member, and their Code of Ethics is one of the reasons I joined. All members must agree to it. https://nppa.org/code-ethics

@Danhon @nick is it illegal to ban congressmen from registering on your instance? 😅

Thinking about setting up a Mastodon server focused on #journalism and #journalists. May have registered the domain “federated.press” … anyone interested in that? cc @Gargron

“When the ‘don’t take sides’ commandment meets a lopsided story like, ‘we have a two-party system and one of the two has turned anti-democratic,’ people in newsrooms hesitate because they are confronted by what feels like a conflict in their code: stay balanced vs. say what is” https://twitter.com/froomkin/status/1587803678853025793

@trinsec @peterdrake if other instances block us because of their ToS, wouldn’t that make us less connected? Or is it just a handful that block us?

If this is finally the tipping point for the Fediverse, I’m here for it. Great to see more people from Twitter moving over.

@jaredwhite I’m glad they didn’t give Counter Social top billing.

@jaredwhite woot

@peterdrake thank you for the explanation!