Notices by gbhnews (gbhnews@mastodon.social), page 2

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)

@TexasObserver

We think the story of the week HAS to be: @TexasObserver saving itself. #WeGotUs! International coverage: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/29/texas-observer-closing-gofundme

See how the effort to put the TO on a new footing is going: https://www.gofundme.com/f/laid-off-texas-observer-journalists-and-staff

Just goes to show: the future of journalism is about news organizations directly supported by the people they serve. ?

Congrats to the @TexasObserver ! #newstodon

Since a lot of new folks are here, I thought it might be time for a fresh #introduction.

@gbhnews is a PBS/NPR newsroom in #Boston, #Massachusetts.

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

We're interested your cats, your dogs, democracy, journalism, our neighborhood, our world, and what matters to you.

@nikkiana Having each of these CMS instances support ActivityPub would be a major advance in a number of ways, but in my opinion, this is the big one: it would allow very easy sharing of articles BETWEEN NPR affiliates.

Right now, most NPR affiliates' websites get an automated feed of NPR articles via NPR's API.

But it's still hub-and-spoke; here in Boston I have automatic access to NPR articles but not, say, to the work of an affiliate in San Antonio. 3/x

@nikkiana ...but now ~200 stations will be moving to a CMS from a company called Brightspot (a little background on that: https://current.org/2019/11/public-media-looks-to-new-cms-for-systemwide-boost-to-web-offerings/) 2/x

@dl Yes! I work in public media, so we're not as relentlessly numbers-focused as commercial media is. But we do try to be good stewards of the resources that our members give us via supporting us. I mean, even one server is a whole lotta tote bags! (Sorry, had to get an NPR joke in there somewhere).

I feel like I signed up to get on the waiting list for some Mastodon analytics app...shucks, now I forget the name. It will come to me.

@sarae aw thank you it does help!

Also we do share some stories that aren't from Massachusetts. If you see a good one let me know!

@sarae I grew up with it too! Our logo has changed some, but the sound, called a "sting," is one we still use all these years later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1-vp3Ynzlc