Public Broadcasters of Europe, Let's All Join Mastodon!
Public Broadcasters of Europe, Let's All Join Mastodon!
In this guest post, Alexander Plaum, Innovation Manager at Deutsche Welle (DW), writes about his team's exceptionally positive experience with microblogging in the Fediverse. He also explains why all public broadcasting professionals should try out Mastodon.
I wrote to about a dozen journalists on Linked who loved to complain about Elon Musk on Twitter. A short paragraph saying about how Mastodon is growing and that the best way to combat Musk power would be by stripping his platform of reputable people.
Zero responses.
42Linkedin is a cesspool and nothing but a dumpster fire. I wish I wasn't pressured to joining it for job searches.
14LinkedIn seemed great for me, lots of job listings and it made applying for jobs relatively simple (for the ones that allowed auto-fill)
I hear people post stuff on it but I can't see why that's relevant so I've never looked at that feature
5I have been looking for a job for 4 months now and have never used LinkedIn to search. I had very good experiences with Google for Jobs, where I could set up alerts for certain search terms and the radius in which I was searching, whereby you can also exclude cities if necessary. This meant I didn't have to use another job board, I only used it for forwarding. Since the last rework, Google for Jobs almost always finds the company websites with the job advertisments directly, so I no longer have to look at job boards at all, a very pleasant experience. I used LinkedIn once to test it and all that came up was generic crap, it's unbelievable how a site that's supposed to be about professional life can be so sub-par at finding jobs. But soon you can play games on LinkedIn, that should solve all their problems. And just to conclude this post, I successfully found a job with this method.
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Same. I wrote to youtube channels complaining about youtube, orgs saying they reducing their twitter activity, politicians talking about "data sovereignty", and a few more. Most responses were either non-committal or non-existent.
I think people just love to complain.
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I've been trying to get the non-profit I work for to get off of Shitter and onto Mastadon for months. So far, no good.
Would love to see state and local governments running their own Mastadon servers and not forcing people to accept Twitter/Facebook's ToS's and user tracking. I feel like I shouldn't have to sign away any rights just to keep up with the city's comings and goings.
I would also love it if they could just post that info on their official website instead of using it as a landing page that points you to their Facebook page 😠
31Some national governments in Europe run their own instances. For example Germany runs https://social.bund.de/ and the Netherlands run https://social.overheid.nl. The EU itself has https://social.network.europa.eu/.
All of them have accounts for government organizations and elected officials.
27That's the dream here, but they all run rogue Facebook pages and just link to those from their official government websites. It's a nightmare.
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Over the past approx. 100 days, dw_innovation@mastodon.social has made 2 or 3 public replies. The idea of using any of these social networks over RSS/Atom feeds and plain old websites is that they're social, not a place you upload text.
As a freedom loving hippie, I'd rather see broadcasters posting to the fediverse instead of whatever awful mish mash of Instagram, Facebook, Twitter et al. it is right now! That would be fantastic!
But as a technical purist, the way DW is using their account right now, they're arguably no worse off getting links/content from their RSS feeds available to the fediverse somehow (e.g. RSS Parrot). Sometimes I feel like we've had walled gardens for so long that we've forgotten about interoperability. Lots of platform thinking! Broadcasters don't need to be on the fediverse, just a way that their stuff can be shared to the fediverse.
I'm excited to see things changing that makes thinking like this even possible!
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