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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by grte@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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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[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 115 points 1 year ago

I think that this is an important part of the future of the fediverse. News sites and the like have shitty poorly moderated comment sections that serve almost no purpose. They have the resources to sustain a large instance and like you said it lets them more easily monetize their work. It seems like wins all around if enough news outlets adopt it.

I think it would be pretty cool if I could subscribe to different CBC sections, and have it show up in my normal feeds, I think this would mitigate the biases that relying on news going viral creates without having to go to the cbc itself and scrape through it myself.

[-] rinze@infosec.pub 50 points 1 year ago

Plus, free RSS!

(For the five of us that still care about that, anyway.)

[-] Volodymyr@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

This is so much better than relying on tweeter assuming it can be medium for some sort of commons!

[-] SlikPikker@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

For sure. Reading through the entire cbc.ca site feels so unfeasible and exhausting. Having it actually categorized and browsable without all the attention-grabbing mega headlines would make it much more readable.

[-] deltatux@mstdn.ca 4 points 1 year ago

@SlikPikker Would using an RSS reader help with navigation? Allows you to follow CBC News without having to dig through their website.

You can find the RSS list here: https://www.cbc.ca/rss/

[-] SlikPikker@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I'll check it out. It might help yeah.

[-] JM42@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Don't click on a CBC app video link either, you will have to watch 30 seconds of ads before the article...EVERY TIME.

[-] SlikPikker@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Do you not have uBlock Origin?

[-] JM42@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Does not work on the app. I use it otherwise.

[-] Magicianfox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, I think this is really the future. I remember there was a country that was also planning to make their own instance in the fediverse as well.

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