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I wonder if this is the start of other companies spinning up their own Mastodon instances. I think it makes a lot of sense for Medium to do so, specifically for communication to the writers that's not attached to a specific post.

Archive.org has their own instance @ https://mastodon.archive.org

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I hope so. News and governmental organizations should consider it, as it pretty effectively solves the "verification" issues.

Interesting idea. You would have a similar problem that you have with email. It's hard to own a fake .gov email, but many people could be tricked by something like mastodongov.com (which is still currently for sale)

All relative of course. Eli Lilly.

Both the European Union and the German Federal Government have their own Mastodon servers, for official accounts under to the respective official domains:

https://social.network.europa.eu/explore

https://social.bund.de/explore

Yes. I think what we (Medium) are doing is more along the lines of being a tools/service provider. But my understanding is that all media orgs are thinking about launching their own instance. That would be a form of verified accounts among other things. For example, I believe this in progress instance is the real Hearst: https://hearst.social/directory

so does thoughtworks and MIT

https://toot.thoughtworks.com

https://mastodon.mit.edu

And the European Union https://social.network.europa.eu/about

Mozilla is planning to: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse...

Mastodon/ActivityPub have a great opportunity to become a nice compliment to RSS as a more open internet.

Looking forward to seeing how this plays out as more entities take this approach.

I have a thread going where I note Fediverse activity of Serious Credible Organizations. Medium is a stretch, but I added them because they at least have Serious Funding.

https://hachyderm.io/@PeterBronez/109552198943104609

Current list is:

The Internet Archive Open Street Map Open Source Initiative Mozilla (planned) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Medium

Isn’t the EU at least a bit credible? ;)

https://social.network.europa.eu/

In a sense, it is not different from FB, Twitter et all presence. Part of me is happy about it; part of me fears that even this little nugget of space that was relatively too obscure until now will be absorbed by the mainstream craziness.

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