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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?

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https://fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview.html

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

@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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

Hilarious that that account's made a single comment pushing back on classic lemmy hysteria/paranoia and then apparently left the platform.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

@mho the image preview looks like great advertising for Flipboard.

@heiseBotti @fediverse

[–] [email protected] -1 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

@mho Das ist DER Fehler im Fediverse. Warum muss man für jeden Service einen eigenen Account haben?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

@vowe Wenn du nicht selbst eigene Photos bei Pixelfed veröffentlichen willst, ist ein eigener Account nicht nötig. Deinem Lieblingsfotografen kannst du von Mastodon aus folgen und auch kommentieren.

Genau so mit den anderen Projekten, mehr wurde nie versprochen.

/cc @mho

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

@vowe

Muss man überhaupt nicht, das ist tatsächlich der große Vorteil. Trotzdem gibt es Argumente dafür, zum Beispiel, weil verschiedene Dienste unterschiedliches ermöglichen: Zum Beispiel die hüpfenden Emojis von @heiseBotti

https://federation.network/notes/a9z6q2eifb0g09ql

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

@mho komisch. Wieso fragst du dann nach Accounts von Medien auf anderen Services? Das müsste dann doch der gleiche sein. Kann ich mit @vowe einfach Peertube-Videos posten oder muss ich dazu einen neuen Account einrichten?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

@vowe

Nein, das sind unterschiedliche Dinge. Du kannst von deinem Mastodon-Account kein Peertube-Video veröffentlichen, dazu brauchst du den Account. Aber du kannst damit interagieren (linken, in der Timeline gucken, per P2P teilen etc.) und das ist der Vorteil.
Wer vorwiegend Bilder postet, sollte dafür keinen Mastodon-Account nutzen, bei Kurznachrichten dagegen schon. Das Tolle ist, dass alle trotzdem verknüpft sind. Die Softwares sind aber untereinander nicht austauschbar.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

@mho wir reden aneinander vorbei. Der Geburtsfehler ist, dass Identity nicht funktioniert. Anstatt eine eindeutige ID zu haben, hast du auf jeder Instanz eine andere. Und deshalb suchst du dir einen Wolf nach Medien im Fediverse. In atproto ist meine ID did:plc:k5ybhnnyl4zwq7ey3q3fogzt und sie kann beliebige Namen haben. Egal welcher Service, diese ID bleibt gleich.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

@vowe Die Grundidee damals war meines Wissens auch eine andere. Nämlich eine eigene Instanz für eine Community. Community meinte in dem Fall eher die eigene Familie, der lokale Sportverein usw. Diese Communities können sich dann untereinander verbinden.

@mho

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

@mho Since when is Threads part of the Fediverse?

@heiseBotti @fediverse

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

@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?

@heiseBotti @fediverse

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

@jill @heiseBotti @fediverse

No, it isn't. But that doesn't make something part of the #Fediverse, does it? Try following someone with a Peertube-account for example. I dind't find a way, yet it's still a part of the #Fediverse..

I'd say: Fediverse = "connected via ActivityPub"

[–] [email protected] -2 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

@mho Disagree.

Because it does. And I am already following people on PeerTube, works just fine!

I've to say, reducing the Fediverse, its development, its history and many supporting different software and diverse communities to a protocol, is, to be frank, just ignorant for an editor of an on tech focused online magazine. You should know better in 2025.

@heiseBotti @fediverse

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

@jill @heiseBotti @fediverse

And if it's not "just" about the protocol: Who gets to decide about the definition? The people on #Mastodon? The ones on #Misskey? Or Lemmy? And why not the ones on #Threads, which could be soon the biggest part of it (the protocol, I mean)?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

@mho We are getting off track. I'd say, don't call it "Fediverse" in your original post, but e.g. "software using activity pub", if that is what you are referring to and if you don't want to be misunderstood.

Regarding the Fediverse and what it stand for as its self-conception built over the years by so many individuals and communities which widely agree upon, my above mentioned remarks still apply.

@heiseBotti @fediverse

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

@jill @heiseBotti @fediverse

No, I mean following an account from #Peertube.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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, @[email protected] does sometimes mention threadiverse communities in its posts so they appear in those communities.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

yeah, I saw your instance only after posting the above comment :D

Still, some other people reading this thread might not know this; I think the way you guys are doing it is a good way to get your articles more widely spread, I think it would be good if other media organizations did the same.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

What do you mean by verified? I'm not sure there's such a thing as "verification" on Lemmy, at least.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago

Also, if the organisation shares their fediverse profile on their official website, you can consider them verified

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago

@gon

I, for example, also count it as verified if an organization links to their account on their website...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Probably verification by the associated domain. At least this works on Mastodon and Friendica.

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/verification-in-the-fediverse/