Swiss public broadcasters withdraw from X/Twitter
Swiss public broadcasters withdraw from X/Twitter
Swiss public broadcasters RTS and SRF are drastically reducing their communications via the social network X (formerly Twitter).
They should really switch to Mastodon and host their own instance, just like the German public broadcast service: ard.social
Btw I just realized that the BBC and NPR are also experimenting with Mastodon, the BBC even has their own instance: https://social.bbc/about
Looks like it's being used, that's cool. https://social.bbc/public
Didnt even know abou that...
That's way too progressive.
Especially compared to their YT-channelThey are not even listing it on their website. Neither for ard.de nor tagesschau.de
I never use the YouTube channels to watch their content, I prefer to watch that stuff right from the ARD/ZDF media library using an open-source application called MediathekView (GitHub). There's also a web version.
So are they going to Mastadon or what?
Not exactly the same, but the swiss administration have their own mastodon instance: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/swiss-authorities-to-join-social-media-alternative-mastodon/48808086
Link to instance: https://social.admin.ch/about
So ideally these public broadcasters would make communities on the official Swiss instance.
I think it would be better if they made their own instance that worked akin to Mastodon. Then they are always in control of it and people can use whatever Fediverse account to follow
I deleted my account yesterday, and don't have any regrets anymore. There's nothing to be gained there. I don't want to be somewhere, where neonazis are encouraged to post
What took so long
Haven't used it in quite a while either way. Only kept it so i can open links
I’m a bit surprised the Swiss were on Twitter to begin with.
A little late, eh?
Better late than never.
Eh, it all takes a bit longer here.
This idea is cheesy and full of holes