I would recommend that 404media self-host. It would be even better for their journalists and staff. This would require either paying for their instance or some IT person to help them out. Either way, I think all news organizations should self-host their mastodon instances.
At what point do we also blame cisco customers for just plugging stuff in and not changing passwords? Cisco did not come into their customers locations and set up racks of stuff, or did they?
Good to know!