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Occupy the Internet: 200 Media Experts Publish an Alarming Wake Up Call and Demand a Public Service Internet (pressat.co.uk)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

What is stopping the BBC to run a Mastodon server? But I doubt many people would use it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Same question I keep asking on why these governments that are so furious with Twitter for flagging and deleting some tweets from their presidents can't initiate their instances for all official posts. Perhaps they fear there will be no traction. But either way, the pull force of these commercial and private platforms is very strong. Some don't know alternatives exist.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago

I have good news to bear here.. the EU is hugely interested in Fediverse and requested SocialHub community (where fediverse standards and tech ecosystem are evolved) to present a 3-part event. You can see details and recordings here: