Submitted 4 days ago by mho@social.heise.de to fediverse@lemmy.world
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?
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)
It’s funny how Americans technology oligarchs love propaganda copytext that includes terms like innovation, change and disruption, yet they are all vapid and lacking any imagination.
This is why RSS is/was so important. RSS readers curate what a user wants to catch up on or follow, right from the sources. Having your own reader (not Feedly, its too big really) means you choose who to directly follow. You click through to them. Back in the day Technorati provided what was trending and big headlines r busy hashtags. So a kind of watchtower. All links went directly to the original content.
Bluesky doesn’t count.
I don’t see why a media organisation would use lemmy. Unless if it’s via the wordpress or another integration.
@mho Since when is Threads part of the Fediverse?
@mho So it's possible for Thread users to follow people in the Fediverse now? And they actual moderate their servers, respect data privacy and copyrights?
What do you mean by verified? I’m not sure there’s such a thing as “verification” on Lemmy, at least.
Also, if the organisation shares their fediverse profile on their official website, you can consider them verified
Probably the verification by the associated link.
https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/verification-in-the-fediverse/
@mho the image preview looks like great advertising for Flipboard.
@ProtonPrivacy@lemmy.world is quite likely the official org
Hilarious that that account’s made a single comment pushing back on classic lemmy hysteria/paranoia and then apparently left the platform.
@mho @heiseBotti @fediverse you can add @novaramedia.com on Bluesky (also bridged to Mastodon) - it’s an independent left wing media organisation from the UK
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
Media organizations typically don’t want to post (only) to discussion groups, they want to provide a way to follow them as organizations.
That being said, @heiseonline@social.heise.de does sometimes mention threadiverse communities in its posts so they appear in those communities.