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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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[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 116 points 2 years ago (13 children)

I think that this is an important part of the future of the fediverse. News sites and the like have shitty poorly moderated comment sections that serve almost no purpose. They have the resources to sustain a large instance and like you said it lets them more easily monetize their work. It seems like wins all around if enough news outlets adopt it.

I think it would be pretty cool if I could subscribe to different CBC sections, and have it show up in my normal feeds, I think this would mitigate the biases that relying on news going viral creates without having to go to the cbc itself and scrape through it myself.

[–] SlikPikker@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago (5 children)

For sure. Reading through the entire cbc.ca site feels so unfeasible and exhausting. Having it actually categorized and browsable without all the attention-grabbing mega headlines would make it much more readable.

[–] JM42@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't click on a CBC app video link either, you will have to watch 30 seconds of ads before the article...EVERY TIME.

[–] SlikPikker@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do you not have uBlock Origin?

[–] JM42@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Does not work on the app. I use it otherwise.

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