I love this. No more “blue checkmarks” or paid verification processes. Just check the domain of the post(s) to confirm they are legit.
This is good to see like to see more companies using the fediverse
Is it better for companies in the Fediverse to create their own instances, like is that how we’re likely to see the proliferation of corporations here? We’ll see a Pepsi instance, a FoxNews instance, a McDonald’s instance? I imagine that gives them the most control over what happens in their neck of the woods vs just having a single corporate account on like lemmy.world or beehaw or whatever (though I don’t entirely understand what having an instance entails).
Makes more sense for The NY Times than for McDonalds. A commercial ad account would want to be found on a local feed of the biggest instance. The BBC experiment won’t work unless they commit to supporting it. Ideally, their reporters would have their own accounts, not just at the radio show level.
Yeah, for any sizable organization running your own instance is the way to go, similarly to how you’d want your own DNS domain, email and web site. And just like with these other services your fedi presence could be hosted somewhere too but you want to be in control of it.
Well, I think it’s positive although it’s eerie to have government run instances.
I may be misremembering but seem to recall them being early to Tw*tter too. Good sign
It’s a funny thing people do. Look it up. Some more examples: Brtish, Frace
‘The site formerly known as twitter’
The unpleasantly long name just makes it funnier imo
