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Re:Washington Post is working on its own Mastodon instance by wolverineoflove on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @05:53PM (#34087454)
Given that the Django web app framework was invented for a newspaper (Lawrence Journal-World) I have high hopes this will potentially provide a way for employed journalists to federate, as well as contribute to the underlying open source project.
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Re:Washington Post is working on its own Mastodon instance by moeris on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @07:07PM (#34088068)
Mastodon is written in Rails, I think. What makes you say that it will be an instance written in Django?
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Re:Washington Post is working on its own Mastodon instance by haney on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @09:48PM (#34089111)
I believe OP's point was that historically journalism organizations have had a positive impact on open source tools. Not that they are directly related.
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Re:Washington Post is working on its own Mastodon instance by vintermann on Thursday December 22, 2022 @05:54AM (#34092093)
As I recall, Varnish was also written for a newspaper. I think it's pretty common for older web technology.
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