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Dutch government starts own Mastodon instance as reaction to the instability of Twitter (lemmy.world)

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https://social.overheid.nl/@beheerder

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[-] garretble@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

This is great.

I really wish more news sites set up their own instances. At the start I realize they wouldn’t be getting as many eyeballs, but it seems to make a lot of sense to have a @news@cnn.social or something. Then Wolf could have @Wolf.Blitzer@cnn.social.

Instant “verification” that way, too.

But we’ll see.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago

Does CNN already own that domain?

[-] variaatio@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

For some crazy reason they haven't snatched it up yet. Atleast a domain seller website is saying it is free for pickings, if you want it.

Then again maybe their policy is to put everything as subdomain on cnn.com and make cnn.com their sole brand "if it's not on cnn.com, it's not that CNN". Still i would have though they defensive register all relevant TLDs, even if they never ever use them.