I wish more news organizations would do this. Make the instance only for the employees and have the public follow them through public instances.
It solves the following issues
- Social media independence
- Validate account authenticity through the instance domain name
- Ability for followers migration between instances (leave, join, change news organization)
You can also block the instance at the account settings level (Blocks tab). That way you will not see posts from these instances on both the webUI and mobile apps.
Sadly it doesn’t have a toggle to block comments and post from users of these instances made on communities outside of these blocked instances