@Paulatics @brodiefenlon Thank you for raising this issue. The news and stories we see on our feeds should not be subject to manipulation by the tech industry. Host a Mastodon server, verify your own hosts and reporters, and federate. Then maybe the government will do the same. People will follow. They are just looking for someone to lead the way. Look at the EU and Germany as examples. There are also alternatives to YouTube Instagram and Reddit.

@Paulatics @brodiefenlon - They completely miss the point. If they're committed to creating apps that barely eke out an audience, they can commit to maintaining a Mastodon instance.

This is a digital sovereignty no-brainer.

How do we replace the stuffed suits running the CBC with proper, progressive socialists?

Seriously, I'll go myself if someone can get me the job at this rate. They're steering it towards irrelevance.

@Paulatics @brodiefenlon
Thank you!

@Paulatics interesting that they blew right past your point of having an option not owned/controlled by non-Canadians. As well, the second-last part about wanting to have their own platform seems proof this man doesn't know what Mastodon (or Bluesky for that matter) actually are. Just a dreadful albeit polite answer

@Paulatics @brodiefenlon
The civil dialogue is appreciated, but showing real leadership would help both the CBC patrons and the developing platforms.

@Paulatics @brodiefenlon What a bunch of waffle. You could easily have a bot repost what you create on both bluesky and mastodon.

@Paulatics @brodiefenlon
@downey

In the Public Interest I do urge you to invest the role in https://www.publicmediaalliance.org/public-broadcasters-create-public-spaces-incubator/ too !

All of this is very confusing to me, we did lots of voluntary and free Open Source work towards the fediverse cause the project is committed to federation since we had this idea. Many volunteers coded, the code became "hidden" later but oversight like @leonido still assured it will federate.

It feels a bit criminal !

@Paulatics @brodiefenlon #CBC should note there are more comments here on Mastodon about that video clip than there on #YouTube....

@Paulatics @brodiefenlon What I don't understand is how a public broadcaster can restrict its news distribution to platforms like X and Instagram that require an account to access some posts. That's the opposite of "public".

If the CBC were serious about their mandate to "[b]e made available throughout Canada by the most appropriate and efficient means", they wouldn't restrict their reach to American-owned private sector walled enclaves.

https://cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/vision/mandate

#CBC

@Paulatics relatively weak answer. There is plenty of data from media outlets that has demonstrated that Bluesky and Mastodon have surpassed X in engagement. The CBC, as a public broadcaster, is a perfect fit for federated networks.

Heck, they should have their own Mastodon instance.

The wait and see approach doesn’t cut it anymore. Canadas public broadcaster should not be on a network run by a Trump acolyte. Period.

https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/bluesky-x-traffic-guardian-boston-globe-news/

@Paulatics I appreciate you for doing this

@Paulatics @brodiefenlon

Thank you for asking the question, but the answer was ultimately unsatisfactory and they were simply allowed to move on.

The answer was just a mix of "we have to be there" and "we're not there that much", plus "we're thinking about it, but don't think it's worth the effort", which is a non-answer and quite contradictory.

There are cheap apps that one can use to easily post to all federated networks in a single click.

@Paulatics @brodiefenlon @brodiefenlon lost me when he said "You can't just walk away." Yet millions of people did walk away from X especially when owner Elon Musk gave his famous Nazi salute during Trump's inauguration. CBC choosing to remain taints the organization but lends credibility to X. As we come up to Nov. 11 CBC will give us patriotic history but no leadership on how to fight the growing threat of fascism in North America. CBC dump X move to Mastodon on your own instance.

@Paulatics Thank you for doing this. I've been writing politicians at all levels asking them to include Mastodon in their social media feeds. If we all keep at it, maybe they'll eventually hear us.

@Paulatics @brodiefenlon Thanks for fighting this fight Senator! Very well worded, incisive question. I think they just don't really understand how ActivityPub/Mastodon works & how they can leverage it while getting out from underneath the commercial sites.

"…we also want to find a way to do this kind of storytelling that you find on social media on our own platforms…"

That's exactly what you can do if you control your own Mastodon instance!

We need these organizations to lead, not follow.

@Paulatics @brodiefenlon

I wonder how many people are still on X because that's where useful accounts are still. I took the decision to leave and do without some useful accounts that haven't yet migrated. I miss some of them, but that's the way it is.

@Paulatics @brodiefenlon

Thank you for fighting the good fight. Was a very limp answer. They clearly have not thought much about this. They do not want to lead at all.

Requiring me to get an account on X or, god forbid, TikTok just to follow the national public broadcaster is outrageous. They should not be on any platform that uses an abusive algorithm. Its like they have no spine at all, no vision.

Thanks again and keep up the pressure for us.

#cbc #cdnpoli #canada

@Paulatics Thank you, Senator.

@Paulatics @brodiefenlon Just tooted this @cbcnews story last Saturday. 500+ boosts, 250+ faves. That might not mean much to CBC, but those are huge numbers for me. #Mastodon is worth exploring. https://mastodon.social/@7sleepersmusic/115394534308882134

@Paulatics NOICE

You’re the best!

@Paulatics @brodiefenlon Wonderful!

Thank you for pressing the issue of free and open communication of public institutions.

@Paulatics @brodiefenlon

To me, it's been so painfully obvious that Carney could do a cost-free Trump-like political stunt that gains attention, gets press, and is hard to complain about: get the Feds off Twitter and loudly insist that the provincial administrations do the same. Then the munis.

How many Twitter accounts do our 3 levels of government have? How many journalists only stay on to follow gov't announcements?

But it's free - Trump can hardly bitch about lost "business"...

@Paulatics
Looks like a great example of a large institution not keeping up, and not really understanding the issue anyway.
I'm old as dirt and can see them doing this...imagine a youngster, thinking they are just out of touch.
Except of course for the youngsters trapped in X, Meta, and so on.

@Paulatics he doesn't actually know what mastodon is. "Platforms come and platforms go"

@Paulatics 'it's about a return on investment' is such a nonsensical thing to say.

Why don't they just say: They don't want to take the time to operate their own instance. They don't want to learn something new. "It's too new for us."

That's clearly what they mean...

@Paulatics Doesn't appear to me that they've thought very hard about this nor that they have a strategy at all. Platforms don't come and go and they are free. And they owe us the outreach. So hire some students to do the work as that's where the young people are.