It's unfortunate that 4estate.media *requires* a keybase account to be eligible to join:
https://4estate.media/about
It ties membership on that instance to a third-party, Zoom-owned centralized service:
https://blog.zoom.us/zoom-acquires-keybase-and-announces-goal-of-developing-the-most-broadly-used-enterprise-end-to-end-encryption-offering/
A journalism-focused instance is really needed on fedi. But making a centralized service effectively the gatekeeper there is regrettable.
I wish @aendra considered at least allowing @keyoxide as an alternative verification provider.
/repost, didn't notice the account move, sorry!
In my defense, the about page for 4estate.media still lists the old account as the admin: https://4estate.media/about
@rysiek Hi!
You're absolutely right, I haven't updated this thing in about a million years and have only resurrected it because a few folks have expressed interest. Thanks for reminding me that I had a Keybase requirement earlier (back from before Keybase was acquired by Zoom), I've since dropped that and don't require it anymore, updating the About page now!
@rysiek You're welcome to apply! Tbh I don't know if there's a tonne of interest from practicing journalists so I might just open it up more generally as a news discussion community.
@aendra thank you. I think there is immense value to having a journalism-focused instance. I know plenty of journalists who would consider joining fedi at some point, and their main question always is "which instance". Good to have a decent answer to that (obviously).
That said, perhaps scholar.social can serve as a bit of a template? Not sure how exactly they draw the line, but it seems to be working well.
@aendra@4estate.media @rysiek@mastodon.technology are newspapers also eligible to join?
@aendra oh this is fantastic! Thank you, much appreciated.
I'd love to move @tecc to 4estate.media, since Masthead has been... overrun due to lack of active administration/moderation. I'll properly request an account of course, using whatever process ends up on the About page.
This is a young and small fact-checking operation between myself and @cguess . I hope it's eligible for a fedi home at 4estate.media.