Comment on ABC shuts down official Twitter accounts due to 'toxic interactions'

Dankry@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• chrisbit@leminal.space ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I agree. I’d like to see them host their own Mastodon and leave a forwarding address on ‘X’.

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  • hayalci@fstab.sh ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    BBC has just started doing that at social.bbc

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    • CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Good! They’re the leading star for many public european broadcasters. I hope many will follow. I work in public sector, and I have lobbied to get IT to start up mastodon servers on our own

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  • Angry_Maple@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think this might become more common over time.

    Up to this point, a lot of the news company’s online presence was probably pretty cut and dry. Some of my local news stations have terrible websites that take forever to load, yet those websites were probably cutting edge at some point.

    If their IT department hasn’t expanded their skills beyond making and maintaining those original websites, I could totally see a long delay happening before they join the fediverse.

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    • ludwig@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If their IT department hasn’t expanded their skills beyond making and maintaining those original websites, I could totally see a long delay happening before/if they join the fediverse.

      More likely they aren’t given the budget they have requested.

      They are also probably busy doing regular IT things like maintaining the IT infrastructure.

      Local news stations don’t really exist in my country so I don’t know how many employees they usually have but it’s possible they don’t even have an IT department.

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      • Angry_Maple@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh, I wouldn’t doubt that either

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    • LegionEris@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Some of my local news stations have terrible websites that take forever to load, yet those websites were probably cutting edge at some point.

      Nah, most local news sites came online as garbage and will never rise above that status. The cleverest of them came online as bare bones, no frills websites that the affordable local website developer they hired could actually maintain.

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    • cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s probably owned by clear channel and has an operating budget of ten bucks.

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• Roundcat@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So basically they're not leaving, they are silencing their political coverage. They're not going anywhere, they're caving to pressure.

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  • Dankry@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah pretty much, they might as well say “we’ve decided to sack Jerry from the Social Media team.”

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• jscummy@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What accounts did they actually remove? News and sports seem like they would be most of their presence

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  • StorminNorman@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    All the accounts for all their shows, as well as their journos. They produce a lot of original content, and have a lot of journalists. This is not an insignificant measure.

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• IHeartBadCode@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah this is only a bit as the mainstay of ABC is their news account. But it is a step in the right direction.

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• Shivering2574@outpost.zeuslink.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This just comes off as “trying” to look good, to me

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