This is almost what I want. I looked into it and you can follow from mastodon, but it just gives a post title and a link. That’s probably because it’s a full blogging architecture. I don’t imagine users would want to have to click a link for a short bit of information.
If they could be married in some way, it would probably be perfect.
The context that I am thinking of is say some sort of authority that previously used twitter to disseminate information.
For example @UN_NERV@unnerv.jp on mastodon is used as an earthquake warning service. I don’t really see any direct interactions on their masto, but they have 20k followers and is obviously a useful service.
I’d imagine that others might consider using Mastodon in a similar way, but they don’t because you have to manage an entire server and take care to remove unwanted content that was downloaded locally.
I think it could draw in both more users and corporations if there was a one way flow of information. Many people used twitter for news updates and more and I feel like mastodon could replace that.
If it was stupid easy to set up a broadcasting service on mastodon like that, that are opt-in by default could benefit many.
It might be over-engineering with the presence of RSS feeds and such but, if something could be tightly integrated with Mastodon to achieve the same goal of easily disseminating information to various servers, it would draw both users and companies.
How ironic that the article talks about dark patterns but as soon as you visit the webpage you get a cookie disclaimer whose reject “button” is small text tucked away in the top right of the modal.