I have found 20 news orgs in the #Fediverse thanks to #Ghost:
@feed@404media.co (404 Media)
@tangle_news (Readtangle)
@team (Kinoki)
@index@urbanandcity.com (Urbanandcity)
@feed@leicester.news (Leicester News)
@index@socialmediawatchblog.de (SMWB)
@feed@platformer.news (Platformer)
@index@levernews.com (Lever News)
@index@thebrowser.com (The Browser)
@index@roscoenews.com (Roscoe News)
@index@mag7.fr (Mag7)
@index@thespillmag.com (The Spillmag)
@index@howfenjournal.co.uk (Howfen Journal)
@index@newbostonpost.com (New Boston Post)
@index@hawkesburygazette.com (Hawkesbury Gazette)
@index@evangelical-times.org (Evangelical Times)
@index@magasinetroest.dk (Magasine Troest)
@index@aretenews.com (Arete News)
@index@malayalamtribune.com (Malayalam Tribune)
@index@verdelehti.fi (Verdelehti)
Thanks for collating this @mho.
Note for orgs federating from a #Ghost service, please consider what your fediverse address looks like in apps that prune off the domain name. Most of you appear as @index or @feed, which is a bit like every John in the 'verse being @john.
Please use an @handle that resembles your masthead, like @tangle_news has, so we recognise you.
@feed@404media.co @index@www.kinoki.co @index@www.urbanandcity.com @feed@leicester.news @index@www.socialmediawatchblog.de @feed@platformer.news @index@levernews.com @index@thebrowser.com @index@newbostonpost.com @index@hawkesburygazette.com @index@evangelical-times.org @index@magasinetroest.dk @index@aretenews.com @index@malayalamtribune.com @index@howfenjournal.co.uk @index@mag7.fr @index@roscoenews.com @index@verdelehti.fi @index@thespillmag.com
@strypey @mho @tangle_news @feed @index @index @feed @index @feed @index @index @index @index @index @index @index @index @index @index @index @index @index Given that the server is an important identifying part of the handle (since users with the same username would appear the same without it) most Fedi clients do not remove the server part of the handle unless the viewer is on the same server. So it isn't a big deal to change the username, I'm frankly just glad to find more news orgs on Fedi.
@golemwire
> most Fedi clients do not remove the server part of the handle unless the viewer is on the same server
How many have you used? I've used dozens, over as many years, and I can assure you that's not the case. *Most* apps don't display anything after the second @, see screenshots from Mastodon web app, Moshidon Android app, and Enafore.
@mho @tangle_news @feed@404media.co @index@www.kinoki.co @index@www.urbanandcity.com @feed@leicester.news @index@www.socialmediawatchblog.de @feed@platformer.news @index@levernews.com @index@thebrowser.com @index@newbostonpost.com @index@hawkesburygazette.com @index@evangelical-times.org @index@magasinetroest.dk @index@aretenews.com @index@malayalamtribune.com @index@howfenjournal.co.uk @index@mag7.fr @index@roscoenews.com @index@verdelehti.fi @index@thespillmag.com
@strypey Frankly, it's not a hill either of us need to die on because even in the screenshots you gave, you can see that all your clients actually *do* display a server. Take a look :) we're both talking about @ mentions but when it comes to viewing a post, *all five* of the screenshotted clients show the poster's server, which is what matters for following a news source.
At any rate, @ index isn't the best name, so they could change it for *that* reason, as you were saying.
@golemwire
> when it comes to viewing a post, *all five* of the screenshotted clients show the poster's server
Do you mean that when you click on a post, the full @address of its sender is shown? I mean, yes, that's true, in all clients.
It's just totally orthogonal to what I was talking about. Which is how the @address is displayed if an Actor is @mentioned in someone else's post. Which is a big part of how discovery happens in independent media, and how a mention can lead to a subscription.
@golemwire
> I've used several and they usually automatically show or hide the server part of the handle
So even those ones don't always show anything after the second @. But even if you were right that ...
> most Fedi clients do not remove the server part of the handle unless the viewer is on the same server
@index isn't a meaningful handle. The Ghost team clearly intended it as a placeholder. Even just changing it to @news would be better.
Is this really a hill worth dying on?