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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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[-] Grant_M@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

100% agree. Now they are free of catering to a billionaire's gamed anti-democratic algorithms. There's an opportunity to get back to REAL news reporting again.

[-] Knightfall@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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?

[-] deltatux@mstdn.ca 4 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 cbcnews@social.cbc.ca looks better on a branding perspective than cbcnews@mstdn.ca. It's no different than how organizations use their own domain for emails.

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[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

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

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