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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] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly with this model of social networking now past its infancy and the most painful growing pains (I think), every entity of any meaningful size should be creating their own Mastodon (and Lemmy) instance. Governments, corporations, non profits, etc.

Validation, message control, etc are crucial to success, and leaving that in the hands of some for profit entity that doesn't have your interests at heart is a recipe for disaster. So many companies had to decide if they wanted to keep their access to customers on the Bird Site while dealing with people saying the N word and cheering literal Nazis. That wouldn't be a problem in federated space: just defederate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I don't think we're gonna see anything worse than the first month where vlemmy and fmhy got nuked. I think big instances that exist now are gonna stick around for a while.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Honestly with this model of social networking now past its infancy and the most painful growing pains (I think)

The most painful growing pains for any social networking service is their Eternal September moment.

I am not so sure we're past that as we keep seeing over, and over, and over again.