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DW Innovation

We started this account less than 6 months ago. It's going pretty well – thanks to you: 4.2k followers, lots of interactions, questions, and comments. πŸŽ‰

A couple of weeks ago, the European Broadcasting Union (#EBU) asked us to write a guest article about our experience with #Mastodon / the #Fediverse, explain the basics, and point out the advantages. :mastodon:

Challenge accepted. πŸ‘

So here's the finished post by @lxplm, hot off the #blog press. ⌨️

πŸ”½
ebu.ch/news/2024/03/public-bro

20 March at 11:19 | Open on mastodon.social
62 comments
National Meme Board of Alberta πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ
πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ OhOkKay

@NMBA @dw_innovation @lxplm

@CBCNews ... they've been on here for over year. But I do agree that Canada needs to fo the same thing.

20 March at 13:42 | Open on beige.party
National Meme Board of Alberta πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ

@OhOkKay @dw_innovation @lxplm @CBCNews
Why does Mastodon block it? I assumed it was some sort of mirror, not actual CBC. I don't expect CBC to come here because they can't control the toots like they pay a fascist company to do on their website.
20 March at 13:46 | Open on mstdn.ca
mvc1095

@NMBA @OhOkKay @dw_innovation @lxplm @CBCNews
the CBC News account on press.coop is automatically generated from CBC's existing public RSS feeds, which is great, but not the same an official presence here (and redundant for those of us who already follow CBC with an RSS reader)

20 March at 13:54 | Open on kolektiva.social
Dave Sanderson πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ

@NMBA It’s not blocked/hidden for me. The last toot from them came in less than 20 minutes ago into my timeline.

20 March at 14:17 | Open on mstdn.ca
National Meme Board of Alberta πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ

@Sanderde
It's not CBC, its automated.
20 March at 14:27 | Open on mstdn.ca
Dave Sanderson πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ

@NMBA I realize, but you were showing a screenshot of the @CBCNews as being hidden by the mstdn.ca moderators. I was just saying my feed from the CBC News bot is not hidden or blocked.
20 March at 14:32 | Open on mstdn.ca
GunChleoc

@Sanderde @NMBA Your sever mstdn.ca is limiting the while pres.coop site, but no reason given. So, I suspect it's either because the content is mostly bots, or because they don't like it that the authors of the posts that are being mirrored weren't asked for consent.

20 March at 15:59 | Open on mastodon.scot
Dave Sanderson πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ

@gunchleoc But why for @NMBA and not for me? Wouldn’t it be for everyone on the server?

@chad, if you have the time, any explanation?

20 March at 16:02 | Open on mstdn.ca
National Meme Board of Alberta πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ

@Sanderde @gunchleoc @chad
I haven't followed the CBC profile yet, so it gives me the blocker page I posted

20 March at 16:49 | Open on mstdn.ca
x - Chad :CApride:

@Sanderde @gunchleoc @NMBA we limited bird app mirrors as they were causing confusion, tons of reports saying someone was impersonating someone not on the fediverse.

You’re still able to follow the accounts but they don’t appear in the federated timeline and you just have to click through that prompt if you don’t follow them.

20 March at 18:29 | Open on mstdn.ca
Dave Sanderson πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ

@chad Thanks for the explanation. It makes sense. I went in search of a CBC News feed to follow and that one worked for me.

@gunchleoc @NMBA

20 March at 18:46 | Open on mstdn.ca
National Meme Board of Alberta πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ
Dr. Quadragon ❌

@dw_innovation Hey, next step - Deutsche Welle's own server?

@lxplm

20 March at 11:29 | Open on mastodon.ml
Nazar Tokar

@drq we'll see who's server get more attention, DW or BBC :)

24 March at 23:04 | Open on social.kyiv.dcomm.net.ua
tallship
Maho Pacheco 🦝🍻
Ed Davies

@tallship What do you think they get wrong? There are other (significantly lower) estimates of the number of users on Mastodon (or the Fediverse ???) than the one referenced in that article but other than that I thought it was all pretty reasonable.

I look forward to DW setting up their own instance.

@dw_innovation @lxplm

20 March at 14:34 | Open on functional.cafe
Regezi

@dw_innovation @lxplm
Und nun zur Bundesliga-Tabelle...nein, Scherz...
Da muss ich also erst bei euch ein bisschen "NΓ€hkΓ€stchen-Plauder" des Γ–RR nachlesen 😏 (einige Social Media Teams interargieren & vermitteln dabei ein stΓ€rkeres Community-Feeling - andere nicht/ gefΓΌhltes Klopfen an einer Pinnwand)...
Und wer sich berufen fΓΌhlt, dies auch dem Schweizer Γ–RR mal wΓ€rmstens ans Herz zu legen, mΓΆge auch auf diejenigen verweisen, die es schon geschafft haben ("Konkurrenz belebt das GeschΓ€ft?" πŸ˜‡)...

20 March at 12:06 | Open on troet.cafe
OX Bunte Panther
Stefan Schmitz :darktable:

@dw_innovation @lxplm

interesting - and yeah, I hope we get more news and media here

20 March at 12:15 | Open on photog.social
Erik Uden πŸ‘
@BjornW@mastodon.social

@nporadio1 is mentioned in an interesting article by @dw_innovation on calling for all public broadcasters to join Mastodon:

ebu.ch/news/2024/03/public-bro

It's published on the EBU website. EBU is: "The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is the world’s leading alliance of public service media (PSM)"

/cc
@Dylan @VPROMedialab @vprosint
@abaratsits
@publicspaces
@brandpuntplus_kroncrv
@zembla_bnnvara
@KVW
@Pointer_kroncrv
@fediversereport

#PublicSpaces #PublicValues #PublicBroadcasters

@nporadio1 is mentioned in an interesting article by @dw_innovation on calling for all public broadcasters to join Mastodon:

ebu.ch/news/2024/03/public-bro

It's published on the EBU website. EBU is: "The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is the world’s leading alliance of public service media (PSM)"

20 March at 12:20 | Open on mastodon.social
Wouter Tebbens
John Robinson

@dw_innovation @lxplm Nice summary of where we’re at πŸ˜€

20 March at 12:32 | Open on mcr.wtf
Leigh Silvester

@dw_innovation @lxplm good article.

As you are aware, having your own server protects your brand and protects you from the possibility of a server closing down (unlikely in the case of mastodon.social).

Glad your experience has been positive.

Do you know what the reach of your article is likely to be in the industry?

20 March at 12:35 | Open on mastodonapp.uk
Alex Plaum

@leighms @dw_innovation Thanks for the positive feedback! Regarding your question: I can't give you an exact number (yet), but it seems like a lot of people at European public media orgs are reading this – and I'm getting a lot of messages. πŸ˜ƒ

20 March at 14:31 | Open on mastodon.social
Voltaire

@lxplm @leighms @dw_innovation great to hear! hopefully you guys are the start of some positive transformation :)

20 March at 16:52 | Open on mastodon.social
Rotfarm

@dw_innovation @lxplm I think a reluctance exists because people have forgotten how to actually be social in a non curated sense of self. To actually make friends with strangers online, or to actually take the time to be part of a community by engaging with people on a level that may be less parasocial.

20 March at 12:41 | Open on eldritch.cafe
kahakai

@rotfarm thank you πŸ’―

I wanted to hear that from someone again. This is the reason for me and all what fediverse is about that I'm advocating to people for.

20 March at 12:56 | Open on hachyderm.io
Rotfarm

@kahakai I think there's a level in de-escalating yhe ways that social media takes space in our lives, both as a viewer, and a user. I don't think it's an easy flip at all. It's not flashy, the people aren't either. We are just being little weirdos by ourselves and with eachother lol.

20 March at 13:45 | Open on eldritch.cafe
πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Ignacio πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Έ

@dw_innovation @lxplm And here I am, waiting for #RTVE to join too. Thanks for your article, I liked it.

20 March at 12:46 | Open on mstdn.social
Seth πŸŽ™οΈ:jawn_sg:
db0

@dw_innovation Since you're posting mostly articles, do consider (cross-)posting to #lemmy as well, as it's way more set for these sort of posts. You can even post in to lemmy from mastodon by @-ing the community you want.

20 March at 12:59 | Open on hachyderm.io
Maho Pacheco 🦝🍻
πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Ignacio πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Έ
Fedi.Tips
soaproot

@mapache @db0 @dw_innovation @FediTips As you can see this rabbit hole can get a bit deep but some search terms which might be a bit more promising are: #Threadiverse #Kbin #PieFed #sublinks . This part of the Fediverse is a bit less well developed than the microblogging part but there has been a lot of activity in recent months and I have every reason to expect further development (both technically and in terms of things like moderation tools and standards).

20 March at 15:28 | Open on sfba.social
grant :blobcatgoogly:​

@mapache @db0 @dw_innovation Lemmy works similar to guppe groups, if you are posting to them at least, by mentioning the group handle

Following a Lemmy community from Mastodon unfortunately will fill your feed with any comment posted to the group :/

I’d love to either find or make a project that cleans up following Lemmy communities on other fediverse platforms tho

20 March at 15:44 | Open on grants.cafe
db0
Maho Pacheco 🦝🍻

@grant @db0 @dw_innovation I know! I subscribed to a memes thread, and altho the memes are nice, the comments were adding a lot of noise to my feed so I decided to unsubscribe.

20 March at 15:51 | Open on hachyderm.io
jakob πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ή βœ…

@dw_innovation @lxplm

Nice to read "Fediverse"... but you still writing about Mastodon only.

A quick search in your article for
- peertube
- friendica
- pleroma
- calckey
- funkwhale
- pixelfed

gives NO result.

Please go back and try to find out, what the REAL advantage of the fediverse is.

I can help you a little bit:

For example #Peertube
Your own a Mastodon-Account. I own a Friendica- and a Peertube account (both on my own servers).
You can read my comment, which comes from friendica. You get my like, if i like your postings.
So, what the hell is peertube...
It is a very advanced Video-platform, fully federating in the fediverse and has similar features as youtube has.
A useraccount can have more than one channel (YT: one account = one channel).
Peertube has live-videos, live-chat, small video-cutting-features, you can update your videos, and you can automatically sync your YT-Channel.
Peertube has also Podcasting-Features for audio-only content.

And the best is:
You can follow my peertube-channel also from mastodon. You get every new video from my peertube-channel in your mastodon timeline.
If you like my videos, you can give a "star" and i receive it as "like" in Peertube.
You can easily share my peertube-videos with your mastodon-user to your followers... and your followers receive my peertube-video...

So you don't need a peertube-account just to consume, like, comment and share the videos you want.

You need only a peertube-account, if you want to share your videos via fediverse.

And if your own a YT-Channel... just mirror and keept it in sync with Peertube, and you have to only upload your videos on YT, and a short time later your fediverse-followers receive notifications for a new video... and can watch, like, share or comment it directly from mastodon, friendica, pleroma, calckey, akkoma... all the other micro/macro-blogging services from the fediverse... you've forgotten to mention in your article...

@dw_innovation @lxplm

Nice to read "Fediverse"... but you still writing about Mastodon only.

A quick search in your article for
- peertube
- friendica
- pleroma
- calckey
- funkwhale
- pixelfed

gives NO result.

Please go back and try to find out, what the REAL advantage of the fediverse is.

I can help you a little bit:

20 March at 13:13 | Open on soc.schuerz.at
William Heber Percy
Ross of Ottawa

@dw_innovation @lxplm thanks for being a trail blazer for media outlets.

20 March at 13:20 | Open on mastodon.social
Maho Pacheco 🦝🍻

@dw_innovation @lxplm I do not see this post in LinkedIn! I would like to repost it!

20 March at 13:24 | Open on hachyderm.io
canleaf08 ⌘ βœ…

@dw_innovation @lxplm defederate the BBC. Keep Mastodon free from transphobia.

20 March at 13:48 | Open on mastodon.social
Kai RΓΌsberg :mastodon:

Hallo@dw_innovation
Vielen Dank Alexander @lxplm fΓΌrs teilen und fΓΌr die gute Zusammenfassung.
Deine Worte in der Γ–RR Ohren.

20 March at 13:50 | Open on mastodon.social
Alex Plaum

@Ruhrnalist Danke dir. Lass uns die Daumen drΓΌcken, dass dieses Jahr noch ein bisschen was geht bei ARD und ZDF.

20 March at 14:44 | Open on mastodon.social
April
@dw_innovation @lxplm as we german queers say: gute Arbeit boop! :neocat_boop:
20 March at 13:54 | Open on donotsta.re
mvc1095

@dw_innovation @lxplm thanks for this excellent summary! i work at a large public university and will share this as i try to convince them to jump here from ex-Twitter πŸ‘πŸ½

20 March at 13:55 | Open on kolektiva.social
Juho MΓ€ntysalo

@dw_innovation @lxplm

Reminds me of a reddit-post where a smallish game developer noted that while their game sold a fraction on linux than it did on windows, 95% of bug reports came from linux and almost all were applicable to improving the windows-version. Better yet: the bug reports were detailed and easy to replicate.

So they upkept the linux-version not for the sales, but for the feedback that allowed the improvement on Windows -- which in turn led to sales.

20 March at 13:58 | Open on mastodon.social
ResearchBuzz

@dw_innovation @lxplm Thank you, I have queued that article for ResearchBuzz.

20 March at 14:06 | Open on researchbuzz.masto.host
GhostOnTheHalfShell

@dw_innovation @lxplm

Size isn’t everything if you’re looking for authentic engagement.

youtu.be/DzZDxYjR5oQ

20 March at 15:06 | Open on masto.ai
disky

@dw_innovation @lxplm Wonderful post. emerging social media platforms are a difficult beast but Mastodon really is one of the best, with the best community I've found since the days of the dial-up BBS. It's inspiring and hopeful, and platforms like DW are vital to its success, so thank you for the report.

20 March at 15:17 | Open on mastodon.social
David Bailey :verified:

@dw_innovation Well done. It’s great to see another national broadcaster enjoying success on the Fediverse, even if it is their innovation department rather than their mainstream channel. Small steps are still to be encouraged, but my message to them is β€œBe bold!”

20 March at 15:48 | Open on mstdn.social
Gwenn

@dw_innovation
Can't wait for your own instances in the #Fediverse ! Maybe #PeerTube , #pixelfed and #mobilizon are also a thing for you?
@lxplm

20 March at 17:00 | Open on social.dauen.name
Petra van Cronenburg

@dw_innovation Great article! I hope it will reach the important media outlets + broadcasters. They could even follow those #journalists who are already here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d

I have only a one-woman private podcast but I can confirm all these experiences. Above all, the communication (which at first glance does a little more work than dropping links) ensures very loyal/interested followers. Quality instead of quantity. 😊

@lxplm

@dw_innovation Great article! I hope it will reach the important media outlets + broadcasters. They could even follow those #journalists who are already here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d

I have only a one-woman private podcast but I can confirm all these experiences. Above all, the communication (which at first glance does a little more work than dropping links) ensures very loyal/interested followers. Quality instead of quantity. 😊

20 March at 17:19 | Open on mastodon.online
LWFlouisa

@dw_innovation @lxplm

That was a switch I wasnt expecting. Glad to have you here.

20 March at 17:36 | Open on comics.town
Rob

> "the community can be a little geeky and smug at times."

Sadly accurate... Well, it's unfortunate for the 2nd half at least. The geekiness could stand a little more dilution.

@dw_innovation

20 March at 17:39 | Open on kolektiva.social
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