Ask HN: Why don't public institutions join the Fediverse?

2 points by dynamorando 2 years ago | 4 comments

What prevents public funded organizations such as the BBC, NPR, or public universities from hosting their own Fediverse flavored instance?

Why couldn't user submitted content be public domain, or CC licensed?

Why couldn't companies sponsor these instances (DDoS protection from Cloudflare, etc?) Why couldn't costs be kept to a minimum by limiting to text only format, or rate limiting posts, etc?

mtmail 2 years ago |

German public TV network, they run a dozen channels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARD_(broadcaster) created their own instance at https://ard.social They use it to publish news, similar to how they use Twitter. Currently 8 accounts.

brucethemoose2 2 years ago |

Because their IT/marketing isnt aware if it and there isn't (yet) a good business case? Why post updates on something mostly no one uses that takes effort to figure out.

But if Twitter truly goes down in flames after the "wait and see" window we are in now... Who knows?

entropyie 2 years ago |

The EU has a Mastodon instance: https://social.network.europa.eu/explore

pestatije 2 years ago |

because its not known...i heard that word (Fediverse) but have no idea what it is