Opinion: Why the CBC should quit Twitter and run its own Mastodon server. Elon Musk’s decision to label the CBC as “government funded” is a good catalyst for public broadcasters to join the fediverse.
Mastodon and the fediverse got a major boost last fall when Musk took over Twitter. Many people, rightly concerned that Musk’s management of Twitter would be authoritarian, left Twitter for the fediverse and now there are nearlyFoolish to depend on Facebook
Of course, the CBC and other public media can use other corporate social media, such as Facebook. However, the key lesson of Musk’s actions is that it’s foolish to depend on for-profit, centrally controlled social media. Meta/Facebook is no angel in this space – it has alreadyWhether or not Bill C-11 is good regulation, the threat alone reveals that the CBC could well be blocked from reaching its audience if the U.S.-based Meta decides it doesn’t like Canadian regulations.
If the CBC wants to engage in Twitter-like activities but without ever having to suffer the whims of a techbro billionaire, running its own Mastodon server would give it autonomy. It could run a server as a public service for all Canadians – something
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