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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 grte@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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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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[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] grte@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] rinze@infosec.pub 16 points 1 year ago

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

[-] voluble@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yep, that is huge.

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 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.

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