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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] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Would doing this be redundant to https://mstdn.ca who has a tie-in with the CIRA?

Or maybe CBC and mstdn.ca could work together?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The BBC instance is trying to fulfill a different role than mstdn.ca fulfills. The social.bbc site (and presumably a similar CBC effort also) is not open to general membership, strictly BBC employees and content. So conceivably a CBC journalist could have a social.cbc.ca account for their work and a mstdn.ca account for their personal life.

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

@Knightfall @grte

On a cost level, yes it would make sense to leverage mstdn.ca but issue is that CBC wouldn't have the complete control & the instant brand recognition via hosting their own instance on their domain name.

It's also much better for the brand to have an account on social.cbc.ca. Something like [email protected] looks better on a branding perspective than [email protected]. It's no different than how organizations use their own domain for emails.