What prevents public funded organizations such as the BBC, NPR, or public universities from hosting their own Fediverse flavored instance?<p>Why couldn't user submitted content be public domain, or CC licensed?<p>Why couldn't companies sponsor these instances (DDoS protection from Cloudflare, etc?) Why couldn't costs be kept to a minimum by limiting to text only format, or rate limiting posts, etc?
German public TV network, they run a dozen channels <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARD_(broadcaster)" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARD_(broadcaster)</a> created their own instance at <a href="https://ard.social" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://ard.social</a> They use it to publish news, similar to how they use Twitter. Currently 8 accounts.
Because their IT/marketing isnt aware if it and there isn't (yet) a good business case? Why post updates on something mostly no one uses that takes effort to figure out.<p>But if Twitter truly goes down in flames after the "wait and see" window we are in now... Who knows?
The EU has a Mastodon instance:
<a href="https://social.network.europa.eu/explore" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://social.network.europa.eu/explore</a>