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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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[–] [email protected] 81 points 2 years ago (12 children)

This is very intriguing.... I actually work in CBC (nowhere near content or with the social media people who'd make these kinds of decisions), but as a developer I get 20% time to dabble with anything I think might be useful. I haven't used it in a while, but a CBC ActivityPub instance may be just the right project, especially if it can auto-publish our content from the same feeds that power our site.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Evan Prodromou (@[email protected]) , one of the co-authors of ActivityPub is super interest in getting Canadian news organisations on board the fediverse. He gave a talk about that last night actually: https://cosocial.ca/@evan/110809723914430376

If you're serious about this, you could totally reach out to him, I'm sure he would love to hear from people in CBC

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

gods tagging someone's masto directly from lemmy, and them being able to directly respond via masto is just so fucking nice

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

@wisdomchicken it's funny that it seems like magic, since we're all on the same Internet. We've been conditioned to have such low expectations!

[–] Neal 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This has just opened my eyes. I get it now.

This whole thing makes sense.

Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Welcome to the club! I did an audible 'oooooh' the first time ActivityPub really clicked with me lol.

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