We started this account less than 6 months ago. It's going pretty well – thanks to you: 4.2k followers, lots of interactions, questions, and comments. 🎉

A couple of weeks ago, the European Broadcasting Union (#EBU) asked us to write a guest article about our experience with #Mastodon / the #Fediverse, explain the basics, and point out the advantages.  

Challenge accepted. 👍

So here's the finished post by @lxplm, hot off the #blog press. ⌨️

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https://www.ebu.ch/news/2024/03/public-broadcasters-of-europe-lets-all-join-mastadon

Public Broadcasters of Europe, Let's All Join Mastodon!

In this guest post, 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.

@dw_innovation @lxplm Interesting article!

I've been lobbying Norwegian public broadcaster NRK for a couple of years now and have mainly been met with a lack of interest.

I think the main reason is that they see it as "just another twitter wannabe" and I have been unable to communicate what ActivityPub means.

I.e. "you don't have to be dependent on anyone else's infrastructure. You can set up your own server in your own domain and people will follow you there" doesn't register.

Oh well!

@steinarb @lxplm this post could be a good reason for NRK to give it a try.

On the other hand, DW doesn't seem to have an account here, only @dw_innovation

@nazar @lxplm @dw_innovation I first tried lobbying NRKBeta, which used to be the equivalent of dw_innovation.

Thought it would be right up their alley, but no luck yet.

https://nrkbeta.no

NRKbeta

@steinarb @lxplm @dw_innovation and how popular mastodon among Norwegians?

@nazar I honestly don't know. 🙂

I am the only one I've met that has talked about it in real life and I know about a handful of others.

So probably not very popular (or "known" for that matter).

I wonder if there are statistics out there?

@steinarb people usually create accounts on local servers. I've found this instance but it seems to be offline:

https://icedtux.no

But I think there should be more of them.

Mastodon

Mastodon instance from Norway, open to everybody.

Mastodon hosted on icedtux.no

@nazar Oh there are several servers.

Biggest one is https://snabelen.no/explore I think.

But there is also https://oslo.town/explore and probably others.

(but I don't know much, if anything, about them)

snabelen.no

Ein norsk heimstad for den desentraliserte mikroblogge-plattformen.

Mastodon hosted on snabelen.no
@steinarb thanks mate!