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chrisbit@leminal.space 1 year agoI agree. I’d like to see them host their own Mastodon and leave a forwarding address on ‘X’.
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.
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.
Oh, I wouldn’t doubt that either
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.
It’s probably owned by clear channel and has an operating budget of ten bucks.
hayalci@fstab.sh 1 year ago
BBC has just started doing that at social.bbc
CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 1 year 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