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

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They would be fulfilling different roles. The social.bbc site isn’t going to be open to the public but rather specific to BBC content and journalists.

Plus an account in a potential social.cbc.ca domain has the advantage that you know automatically that it’s a legit CBC account.

Yep, that is huge.

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Ah true! I didn’t think of it that way. I kind of forgot how the whole federation thing worked for a second there lol.

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