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Mastodon rolls out built-in bylines for journalists in the fediverse (www.theverge.com)
submitted 4 months ago by Corgana@startrek.website to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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I think this is a good incentive for Journalists to be more active on the fediverse.

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[โ€“] ABasilPlant@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think the difference lies in two things:

  • You can share an article from a user of a different instance. In this case, your instance will have to look up the rel="author" tag and check whether the URL is a fediverse instance. I'm not sure whether this is scalable as compared to a tag that directly indicates that the author is on the fediverse. Imagining a scenario where there are 100, 1000, 10,000, or 100,000 instances on different versions.

  • The tag is to promote that the author is on the fediverse. If the rel="author" tag points to twitter for example, maybe Eugen Rochko + team didn't want a post on the fediverse to link to twitter.

These are my thoughts and idk if they're valid. But I think just reusing the rel="author" isn't the most elegant solution.

I know that mastodon already uses rel="me" for link verification (I use it on mu website + my mastodon account), but that's a different purpose - that's more for verification. There's still no way of guaranteeing that the rel="author" tag points to a fediverse account. You're putting the onus on the mastodon instance.

[โ€“] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago

There's also no guarantee that the rel=me points to a fediverse instance, mastodon already has logic to deal with thus without reinventing the wheel with what's effectively a proprietary solution.