about:Guardian-X

[aschrijver]

Lucky. An "about-us" repo. Who are The Guardian?

In 2024 it is highly annoying that The Guardian (which I think is a newspaper I respect) can only be reached via a mysterious social media platform called "X" which - many Guardian articles learn me - is run by some cartoonish evil villain that came straight from a Bond movie. Or rather can't be reached, as each click on an X-handle redirects to a sign-up dialog to this terrible platform.

Isn't it high time for The Guardian to launch their own independent Fediverse instance? Independent journalism needs independent channels and contact points, right?

[ccamara]

BBC's experience setting their own instance (along with multiple mastodon accounts) may serve as an example/inspiration.

They shared their experience here: https://www.bbc.com/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub

[mattkatz]

Ooh yes please. Everything in flipboard federates but I’d love to interact with actual journalists in the fediverse. I won’t go visit them at X / Twitter.