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The BBC on Mastodon: Experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media

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    millions
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    I'm american, but I just posted this because I think it's cool how big news sites are making instances now.

    I'm american, but I just posted this because I think it's cool how big news sites are making instances now.

    6 votes
    1. freedomischaos
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      This was exactly what I was optimistic about happening. I am also an American and thought that it was odd that they were all on Twitter as it would be absolutely awesome for the government to run...

      This was exactly what I was optimistic about happening. I am also an American and thought that it was odd that they were all on Twitter as it would be absolutely awesome for the government to run an instance that all other government entities, state, and potentially even local members can all join into and use for promotion and engagement in a way that Twitter never could with no real expectation of it going anywhere and use it for your local news and traffic and weather, to all the memes from the Parks Department about not petting the buffalo.

      2 votes
    2. Curiouser
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      I'm thrilled to see support snowball for something not profit-driven!

      I'm thrilled to see support snowball for something not profit-driven!

  2. PossiblyBipedal
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    Wow. This is great. I hope this works out well for them. It would be great if more organisations tried other networks that aren't twitter or meta driven.

    Wow. This is great. I hope this works out well for them. It would be great if more organisations tried other networks that aren't twitter or meta driven.

    4 votes
  3. knocklessmonster
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    I like this. If every organization maintained their own federated instances it would help with flows of information and sort of a social network redundancy. It also wouldn't be a major price...

    I like this. If every organization maintained their own federated instances it would help with flows of information and sort of a social network redundancy. It also wouldn't be a major price difference for many orgs that are already in the cloud, and even less for local infrastructure.

    3 votes
  4. DefiantEmbassy
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    Good to see that they've thought of moderation. Hopefully this experiment is successful!

    Good to see that they've thought of moderation. Hopefully this experiment is successful!