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I always thought it would be cool if every NPR/PBS station also ran Fediverse nodes of mastodon or whatever the Fediverse version of Facebook is. Would provide a public-funded option with more transparency

>>novaga+(OP)
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>>novaga+(OP)
The BBC started running their own instance as an experiment, and it seems that they will not keep it running: https://mstdn.social/@isleofmandan/111775751771437531

>>novaga+(OP)
Yeah, I like the federated idea, but I think it had its chance when Elon took over Twitter and they never managed to capture the exodus of users in any significant way. The barrier to entry was just too high (but they have taken great steps to reduce the complexity).

>>Rodeoc+03
Well my experience with Mastodon has been that it's almost entirely tech people who are joining mastodon for the technical novelty. If every NPR/PBS station launched a social network concurrently, then people would quickly find other people on the platform to connect with