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Martin Holland Apr 14, 2023

While #NPR and #PBS have quit #Twitter (without mentioning #Mastodon however), Germany's biggest public broadcaster #ARD and #ZDF are not only already testing their own instances for quite a while (https://dev.ard.social/public/local & https://zdf.social/public/local): The first proper account is now live and posts news articles from northern Germany – @NDR

Let's see, if NPR and PBS find their way here. Oh and where is the #BBC?

#Twitter #TwitterTakeover #ElonMusk #SocialMedia

dev.ARD.social

Die offizielle DEV-Mastodon-Instanz der Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (ARD). Bestimmt für die redaktionellen Angebote der ARD.

Mastodon, gehostet auf dev.ard.social

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Frank Apr 18, 2023

I did mention Mastodon below their last tweet on 13.04.2023: https://twitter.com/frankschoschka/status/1646283113729867777

And I assume that they did not mention it, because according to Musks linkage rules that info could've been deleted.

@mho @NDR

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“@NPR NPR Mastodon, official, created in 2020: https://t.co/CRzB8tYfct”

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Martin Holland Apr 18, 2023

@frankschoschka @NDR
But how do we know, that that's offical?

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Frank Apr 18, 2023

@mho @NDR

what is official? I'm not affiliated! What's official is what you also covered, that they actually started to use the mastodon account after stopping on twitter.

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Martin Holland Apr 18, 2023

@frankschoschka @NDR
I mean, how do we know, that that account is really from NPR?

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Frank Apr 18, 2023

@mho @NDR

How we know that https://twitter.com/NPR/ is the official account by NPR to find out whether this status I replied to is official? https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1646138106595139584

I guess from 8.8M followers, the yellow checkmark and Musks branding as "Government-funded Media"? Maybe that's not what you're asking or I don't get it.

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Martin Holland

@frankschoschka @NDR
No, we know (or better knew) because there was a link to this Twitter-Account on npr.org (that's already gone now):
https://web.archive.org/web/20230306000818/https://www.npr.org/
There is none to Mastodon, so we have no idea, if it's legitimate..

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