German media manager: "Public broadcasters of Europe, let's all join Mastodon!" ( www.ebu.ch )

Alexander Plaum, Innovation Manager at Deutsche Welle (DW), writes about his team's exceptionally positive experience with microblogging in the Fediverse. He also explains why all public broadcasting professionals should try out Mastodon (and other decentralized social media).

"So what are the skeptics waiting for? Everybody has to prepare posts and threads and multimedia soc med content bits anyway – why not put them out on Mastodon? Imho, there's nothing to lose, only a new (rather interesting) audience to gain," writes Plaum.

FunkPhenomenon ,

can they retain their current funding levels if they focus on the fediverse?

ninpnin ,

How are those two related?

FunkPhenomenon ,

perhaps they arent. in America, public broadcasters receive some part of their funding via PBS, corporate/private donations, etc - no idea if it's similar for European public broadcasters or not - hence, the question

hanekam ,

The European model used to be empowering the public broadcaster to collect a TV licensing fee, but is now moving to direct tax payer subsidy because internet streaming made that too easy to circumvent

FunkPhenomenon ,

oh nice, a real answer! thanks, that's really interesting.

hanekam ,

It was a very good system. Collecting it's own fees added a degree of separation between government and public broadcaster and protected it's independence.

AlexS ,
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In theory yes, in reality no.

Speaking for Germany.

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