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Oh hey: our newsroom released a short #documentary today.

"Don't Judge Me" is the story of Onyx White. He went to prison at 16 and is now trying to build a life after 12 years inside.

It's all free to watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6mZ2N2qsXM

Dear #Fediverse:

Given the news in the last few days, I am encountering a lot of people who are seeking out #MentalHealth resources and #SelfCare techniques.

Can you help me add to the list? What resources do you recommend for people seeking mental health help?

How do you take care of yourself in tough times?

truly cats show us how to relax in any situation

Congratulations to Frontline!

They won this year's Oscar for Best Feature Documentary Film for "20 Days in Mariupol."

See the entire film for free online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvAyykRvPBo #Oscars #documentary #Ukraine #PublicMedia

By the way, yr humble #fediverse servant will be operating the Manchvegas Express tomorrow morning (read: I am driving my Hyundai Venue stuffed with coworkers to NH to help our team cover the primary).

I'll need to bring stuff to eat. Thoughts? I have "bag of fluffernutters" on my list so far. Fruit maybe?

Don't let anybody say we don't have fun at work 😁

say hello to @houstonpublicmedia everybody!

welcome fellow public media folk!!

give 'em a follow, #fediverse friends!

Is #Caturday, and for this last Saturday before #Halloween we are particularly interested in your black cats

But all cats are welcome in our mentions

Friends, #fediverse - ians, lend me your ears 👂

I spoke to a very interesting group of people last week about the prospects for Public Social Media.

I feel I should write a brief essay as followup and I am staring forlornly at my text editor.

How shall I explain to people unfamiliar with the #fediverse why it represents a promising opportunity for their organizations?

@dansup OHHHH ok. Well if it's select, then that is great. I actually don't want to upload EVERYTHING.

Thank you for your support!

@dansup oh cool! So the thing that got my attention was the Instagram integration.

It looks like if I have an IG archive file, I can upload it to Pixelfed. But it also looks like I have a 7GB upload limit, and I'm concerned that my archive would exceed that.

Is there any way to cut down an archive file? I'd cut it down to the last year to avoid the storage cap...

@dansup Amazing thank you! Do you know a lot about Pixelfed and would you entertain questions?

meanwhile, on #pixelfed 😂

our first post:

we should just be patient, yes? if there is something else we should do to explore this further field of the #fediverse we hope that you, our fedi friends, will let us know.

@gemlog I'll type a little more tomorrow, k? I have a basic sense of it but I want to summarize it more cleanly than I suspect I am capable of at this hour. 😁

@gemlog Technical costs aren't the thing holding us back.

📡 for those of you who are just tuning in

GBH News is a PBS/NPR newsroom in Boston, Massachusetts.

We start each day with a greeting, the weather, a news brief, and a poll.

It surprises me when we get people who say they think this is the full output of our newsroom, but of course it is not. We simply care enough about the #fediverse to engage here.

If you want livestreams/video, see here: https://www.youtube.com/c/gbhnews

If you want to do a deep dive, visit our website: https://www.wgbh.org/news/

@dl @feditips what's your source for a total user count? @mastodonusercount is one I often see as well as Fediverse Observer.

Do you know about #Newstodon Friday?

On Fridays, news organizations with an active presence here in the #fediverse share their best work with you.

It's a great way to find interesting stories and news organizations you may want to follow!

Today's #Newstodon Friday host is @themarkup.

Check out what they are sharing: https://mastodon.social/@themarkup@mastodon.themarkup.org/110197536045942313

@msbellows @TexasObserver

That's an excellent question. I worked for INN (The Institute for Nonprofit News) for a few years. At the time we had ~140 nonprofit news organizations as members and the core of our work was helping them get to a place of financial sustainability.

Typically, success looked like:

* recurring revenue from memberships
* events

and sometimes

* partnerships or even acquisition by a public media organization

(it's their call of course, I'm just an observer)