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BBC is starting its own Mastodon instance. The CBC should do the same. (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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As it says in the title, the BBC is starting its own Mastodon instance. I think the CBC (and other news networks) should do similar. Particularly with the recent passing of Bill C-18 it seems like a world where the links we share are crossposts to news organization's own content is the perfect resolution to that whole issue.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know. We already have mstdn.ca and it is free (as in speech) and supported by CIRA.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They would be fulfilling different roles. The social.bbc site isn't going to be open to the public but rather specific to BBC content and journalists.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Plus an account in a potential social.cbc.ca domain has the advantage that you know automatically that it's a legit CBC account.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yep, that is huge.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Ah true! I didn't think of it that way. I kind of forgot how the whole federation thing worked for a second there lol.