Le Monde, French newspaper of record, quits Elon Musk’s X
Le Monde, French newspaper of record, quits Elon Musk’s X
They have an official Mastodon account: @[email protected]
Good.
Everyone should
They do have RSS feeds, cheers: https://www.lemonde.fr/actualite-medias/article/2019/08/12/les-flux-rss-du-monde-fr_5498778_3236.html
"We have therefore decided to stop sharing our content on this network as long as it operates in this way, and we recommend that Le Monde journalists do the same. We will also redouble our vigilance on several other platforms, notably TikTok and Meta, following Mark Zuckerberg's worrying statements," Fenoglio added, referring to the Meta chief's recent political heel-turn.
😩 I doubt they really actually care. It's just about getting ahead of the curve and guessing where others will migrate towards. If they really cared, they'd have mentioned the fediverse and invited people to follow them on a self-hosted instance.
I’m still surprised self hosting mastodon instances isn’t more popular among press/media brands
All the benefits of posting on twitter with complete control of how your brand is presented.
It's not so easy from their point of view. Most news agencies, outside of the big mega corps, no longer have tech departments. All they have is an IT person to handle laptops and perhaps one webpage, and some community managers doing social networks. And those positions don't always have the transferable skills to host a server more complex than WordPress or square space. Remember those services have been commoditized by host companies to the point of being plug and play options on forms. The same hasn't happened for fediverse services yet. On boarding people with such skills takes time and even then the problems just began, as managing the data stream from the activity pub is a full time job.
Yeah odd they haven't switched to bluesky or mastodon, wouldn't be that much different from twitter
They don't have a Mastodon instance, but they do have an official Mastodon account: @[email protected]
use 😔 or 😞
Good. Long overdue
Just set up host for mastodon, embrace the fediverse !
Only took them elon coming out of the closet as a proud neo-nazi...wasn't obvious enough before.