ABC shuts down official Twitter accounts due to 'toxic interactions'
The public broadcaster says interactions on the platform are ‘toxic’ as it closes almost all its Twitter accounts
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Hopefully the ABC will follow the BBC in setting up accounts in the Fediverse
German public broadcast also have their own mastodon instances:
And the German ARD is actually the biggest public broadcaster network in the world.
Nice!
BBC went mastodon though. Which makes perfect sense: They've been heavy Twitter users.
The nature of what they do though lends itself better to Lemmy in my opinion: Post a link to the article, and have a threaded discussion exclusively relating to that matter contained in the post. I think it's more elegant than the trending hashtag thingy.
I'm also a windbag though, and prefer to have the option of longer-winded responses than the 500-character limit. A 500-character limit comment would end here.
I’m also a windbag though, and prefer to have the option of longer-winded responses than the 500-character limit. A 500-character limit comment would end here.
Firefish.social (or other Firefish instances) has your back FYI. IMO it's everything good about Mastodon in a nicer package with greater functionality. Federates with Mastodon, but has full (if basic) blogging (Pages they call them), and a default 4000 character limit on toots/microblog posts and comments.
This has become my reddit, but I really like Firefish as my twitter/mastodon/potential blog site. If I had to give up one of them, I'd keep Firefish.
The problem for media organisations with forum discussions (Lemmy, kbin, Reddit, actual forums) is that they have less control of the narrative. You need to employ (and provide mental health care) to moderators, which gets expensive quickly.
Mastodon (and other microblogs) are much more convenient because the publisher can dump their headline and blurb, but don’t need to maintain the discussion further. If a dog-pile happens, it doesn’t effect the original content.
Well they could spin up an instance that is only for @abc.au addresses, then post here... I'd feel a lot less worried about communities with ABC trademarks like "Bluey" and "Rage" it they were among us and posting here.
I know Reddit has /r/bluey and ABC has not appeared to go after them. So, I may be concerned over nothing.
It would be so cool if they set up instances!
