This. One of the points of this whole endeavour is self-hosting, in the name of resisting centralization.
Imagine if Mozilla had hostes its website on Geocities.
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Steve@communick.news 1 month agoHard disagree.
Running your own social media server for official accounts, so you’re not beholden to the whims of other providers, is kind of an obvious thing to do for online organizations.
Kichae@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Midnitte@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Isn’t that exactly why you pick up your account and move servers?
Again, they were also running a server we could join - I don’t know why they thought they had the resources to handle that.
Steve@communick.news 1 month ago
We’re not talking about individual people, but whole corporations and organizations.
For example. Instance.social is shutting down. Now the whole Org needs to migrate 150 accounts to someplace else. Oh and the old posts are being deleted, can’t migrate those.
That’s not a situation they would want to be in. Better to have your own social home, that you control.
mp3@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I wish more news organizations would do this. Make the instance only for the employees and have the public follow them through public instance.
Grimpen@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
The whole Fediverse is still a little on the niche side, but if growth continues, I think this is exactly another development. When you work for Company X, your work email is usually somebody@companyx.com, likewise I would expect official Fediverse presences.
Where it will probably take off though is when somebody starts selling corporations a turn-key solution. Kind of how products like Outlook took over corporate email.
Midnitte@beehaw.org 1 month ago
I definitely agree on news organizations doing this (and even government departments), but the problem with Mozilla doing it is they were running a server any of us could join - if they don’t have the resources to run it for themselves, they definitely shouldn’t be doing it for others to join.