• @[email protected]
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    1099 months ago

    Definitely do this. It puts broadcasters in control of their data and their brand and not the arbitrary whims of some third party.

    • @Wodge
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      739 months ago

      Every company should do it. Have their own instance, have a main corporate account, one for each of their brands, and availability of for staff to have accounts there.

      Companies complain about the lack of moderation on twitter under Musk, so do something about it.

  • @thehatfox
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    In the UK the BBC are running their own instance social.bbc on trial basis, and I think the trial was recently extended.

    Hopefully other public bodies will follow suit.

    • @[email protected]
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      439 months ago

      Pretty much all companies should be doing the same thing, not just public bodies.

      If you build your house on a king’s land, the king owns your house.

    • @ripcord
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      129 months ago

      You know, it just occurred to me that it’d probably be useful if there were providers providing and maintaining instances as turnkey operations. Most organizations won’t want to host themselves, but might still want to pay for a (reasonably cheap) instance.

      Anyone know what commercial options are out there? A really quick search didn’t turn up anything for me.

  • m-p{3}
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    459 months ago

    I wish, and that would also give another push to RSS feeds which are builtin, to follow people without having an account.

  • @[email protected]
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    359 months ago

    I can’t believe all public entities didn’t jump on ASAP. It just makes so much sense.

  • @nivenkos
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    179 months ago

    What is the Mastodon Lemmy.world equivalent? Like a big, neutral server with minimal censorship and bullshit, and access to most other servers?

    • Nix
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      259 months ago

      Mastodon.world lol its run by the same team

      • Soullioness
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        If I’m not mistaken they also run other software too? I just can’t think of what else. Definitely both Lemmy and Mastodon. Pretty cool really.

        • Star
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          129 months ago

          They also run bookwyrm.world! A fediverse alternative of Goodreads.

          • @isles
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            39 months ago

            Oh thank you so much for sharing! I abandoned Goodreads because it lacked trustworthiness (why does an unreleased novel have 10,000 5 star reviews?)

            • @[email protected]
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              29 months ago

              Not federated but I can really recommend trying out hardcover.app/

              They’re not federated but have very good import/export tools if you want to take your data somewhere else.

              • @isles
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                29 months ago

                Thank you! I’ll check that out as well, though I value highly federation.

                • @[email protected]
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                  29 months ago

                  Me too, hopefully they federate at some point. The team behind Hardcover seem to support the ideas of the open web… at least data portability and so on. Let’s see if a meaningful connection with Bookwyrm is possible in the future.

              • @isles
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                19 months ago

                Well, at least there’s the veneer of authenticity, ha. Thanks for the extra context.

    • Bebo
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      29 months ago

      mastodon.social. Don’t know about censorship though.