Dan Gillmor
The self-verification system built into Mastodon should be one of its greatest selling points. This is especially true for journalists and everyone else for whom evidence of identity has huge value in the social media realm.
But anecdotally -- and I would wager for real -- most people in the craft, even a lot of technically adept folks, don't seem to know how easy self-verification can be here.
If you are trying to persuade a journalist you know to join up, please highlight this feature.
Eugen Rochko
@hrheingold @dangillmor Would be happy to turn it into an official thing 🙂 Have been doing the pitching manually up till now.
Dan Gillmor
@hrheingold Want to work on that with me?
Howard Rheingold
@dangillmor happy to help
Howard Rheingold
@dangillmor A single page URL that describes exactly why and how journalists should use Mastodon could be sent to journalism schools and others.
Howard Rheingold
@Gargron @dangillmor So what do we need.
1. Why journalists should join Mastodon
2. How to join
3. What to do upon joining.
4. Someone or someones to answer onboarding questions
Howard Rheingold
@Gargron @dangillmor This would be useful: list of journalists already on Amazon:
There are a number of guides like this. Which one is the simplest for getting started?
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