• 4am@lemmy.zip
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    16 days ago

    This is the part of the internet that we have forgotten. Everyone is supposed to be their own little island but they all connect. If I want news I shouldn’t have to go to Facebook, I should have to go to the news org.

    This is why the Fediverse has been thriving by imitating monolithic platforms like Reddit or Twitter but doing so in a way that domains (aka “sites” are still all their own.

    I shouldn’t have to go to Reddit to get to CNN, I should have to go to CNN to get CNN. CNN should not join Lemmy, CNN should host a Lemmy instance and have communities for topics and programs, and its users should only be people who work there. And that should all be federated out for the rest of us to interact with.

    (CNN was the quickest news org name to type and I wasn’t about to use Fox as an example)

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      7 days ago

      @4am not sure about Fox, but @CNN is already here, technically 😁 Just that Lemmy provides no way on viewing anything else than communities/groups and whatever that account posted in these.

      There are a bunch of news accounts on Flipboard that have the federation enabled in this list. If you’re on Mastodon, Friendica, Mbin and probably Piefed too, you should be able to follow them too.

      @Skiluros