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BBC starts experimenting with the Fediverse, running its own Mastodon instance(social.bbc)

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Because of the network effect and content aggregation. With emails you just want to reach a specific person, with public posts you want to reach as many people as possible. But I also think the whole ownership and control problem of centralized social networks wasn’t as apparent as it is now.

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