Gregory's ServerThere it is: #ARD, the biggest public broadcaster in the world, opened its own instance for #Mastodon today – https://ard.social
Its flagship news programme gets the first account: @tagesschau@ard.social.
On #Twitter the #Tagesschau has 4 million Followers, I am curious, how much it gets here and how fast. Could give us a hint on how active the german community on #Mastodon still is. The inoffical @tagesschau@squeet.me had amassed 53k Followers, the other public broadcaster @ZDF 13k in three weeks.
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Some days ago, the ones responsible told me, that this is an experiment. They want to try it out, and see where it goes. There are no explicit goals, but they will track, how many visitors will come to their site through the links posted here.
They'll also keep the other instance https://dev.ard.social, where they will test and develop stuff. They want to contribute to #Mastodon and the #Fediverse. Code will be published on the GitHub-Account of the #NDR: https://github.com/NorddeutscherRundfunk
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Some days ago, the ones responsible told me, that this is an experiment. They want to try it out, and see where it goes. There are no explicit goals, but they will track, how many visitors will come to their site through the links posted here.
They'll also keep the other instance https://dev.ard.social, where they will test and develop stuff. They want to contribute to #Mastodon and the #Fediverse. Code will be published on the GitHub-Account of the #NDR: https://github.com/NorddeutscherRundfunk