That would be interesting. But CBC absolutely hates public engagement. Plus I cringe at the thought of 75% of the CBC budget being spent on content moderation.
Why doesn’t the Tyee start their own Mastodon server?
Plus I cringe at the thought of 75% of the CBC budget being spent on content moderation.
Theoretically, could they outwardly federate only? For example, they make a post which gets pushed out to other instances, but they would set their instance to not allow any external posts or comments to be federated into their instance, and they could close registrations. That way, the rest of the Fediverse could follow and interact with their content, and they wouldn’t have to deal with moderation. I’m not sure if that’s really how federation works, so please correct any inaccuracies.
They only have to moderate content from users on their server, and the idea would be that only CBC employees (or programs) would be given accounts which also verifies they are legitimate. Readers subscribe to those accounts from their own instances.
So it’s their own private instance that people view from the outside. This might be a reasonable way to publish.
Kinda surprised the BBC hasn’t done this already, they’re normally quite advanced with this kind of thing.
Unfortunately it doesn’t seem like they’ve really stuck with it
Why would a news agency require a social media server?
They are supposed to do news, right? We have open standards for that already. RSS feeds, namely.
For the same reason that they have a website: to control their media presence and their means of content distribution.
