(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . DailyKos #Mastodon Social Media Strategy - Create Dailykos.Social [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-02-08 DailyKos was born out of the #Indieweb and #blogging ethos. Self-hosting and federating out content from compelling authors was in the DailyKos DNA. Before independent “blogging” became “micro-blogging” and then was subsumed into coroprate silos. Time to go back to those roots, embrace a decentralized and open web-first strategy — and to give the finger to a spiralling Twitter and other closed silos at the same time. Here is one strategy as to how to do it. And it would not be costly — in fact it could give a reason for subscriptions to Dailykos. And there is already a very compelling model for how this can work. First Idea: DailyKos should setup it’s own Mastodon server ASAP. Call it “Dailykos.social.” I’ll leave it to other links like this to explain in more detail of what those are and how they work, but in essence it is a five year old open source and interoperable mini-Twitter like service — that can speak to all other Mastodon users, and servers in one federated network. It has almost 10 million users on the Mastodon/Fediverse network, and it has risen dramatically with the woes at Twitter. Mastodon’s ethos and DailyKos’s ethos are also very aligned. From Mastodon’s founder: “we present a vision of social media that cannot be bought and owned by any billionaire. Your ability to communicate online should not be at the whims of a single commercial company! Developed by a non-profit, Mastodon is essentially a framework that allows communities, individuals and organizations to self-host interoperable social media - a decentralized social network. We have no power to define your rules, to show you ads, to track your data--by design.” Second idea: DailyKos should set this up as what is called a “closed” Server — for the DailyKos trusted community only. So when one sets up a Mastodon server you can choose who can join, and how. Start with all staff. Then add top trusted users. Medium.com has pioneered this model: they setup their own sub-branded Medium Mastodon server, called http://www.md.em. And then they own and manage that closed server and are migrating over all staff, and top Medium authors to the platform. If you are a trusted, paid Medium user, in addition to seeing no ads on Medium.com, you get access to becoming a me.dm member to boot. See this model here: medium.com/… It completely meshes with what a Dailykos.Social Medium server could be. This could give one more reason to become a DailyKos subscriber for the $40 bucks a year it asks for now — and it could also get you in line to get on Dailykos.social on Mastodon. And you would know it would have good admins managing it, and it would tie into the overall trusted and known DailyKos community. Third Idea: For Now, This is a Compliment to Daillykos.com — not a replacement. But you can integrate in easy ways: adding “share to Mastodon” using your DailyKos.com profile to verify your Dailykos.social account as you. It could integrate in light and simple but powerful ways from the web based Dailykos.com and the Mastodon/Fediverse based DailyKos.Social. Many key staff and writers already are on Mastodon. This is already happening in a ad hoc, non-strategic way one by one. This strategy would help it happen in a strategic way. This could happen, and could happen quickly. I admin and manage a 10,600 person instance now on Mastodon, http://indieweb.social. We are in the top 100 mastodon servers now. I would love to brainstorm with anyone able to build steam for this idea. Best way is to vote this up, share it around, and message me at @tchambers@indieweb.social [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/8/2151964/-DailyKos-Mastodon-Social-Media-Strategy-Create-Dailykos-Social Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/