The great thing with the fediverse is that a big company can run its own forum/microblogging instance and therefore communicate with their customers while maintaining full control over their content.
PabloDiscobar@kbin.social to /kbin meta@kbin.social – 12 points – No need for them to chase the next big platform like reddit/facebook/google+, and no need to create "official accounts" on each.
I see that DJI has a sub on reddit for example, but you need to register an account on reddit to post there. With the fediverse, you as a customer need only one account and you could access the instance of multiple companies. DJI could run its own instance, make their rules, federate whoever they want, (will probably allow respectable instances only, like what kbin aspires to be) and that's it, they don't have to adapt to the changing rules of reddit, of twitter, of facebook. They have one point for publishing, with full control over it, with video, firmware downloads, tech support, etc.
It's so much easier for them. A perfect neutral territory, no weird jurisdiction, no worries of being muted by a Trump for example who would impose a boycott like he did on Huawei.
I've seen some people on Mastodon talking about how news organizations could just set up their own Mastodon instances, and only give accounts to their employed journalists. That way they could all repost each other's stuff but no one would have to put up with Twitter's policies. I think that's a pretty cool use case for the technology, and similar to what you're describing here.
It's also a self-verification system. You know that's not someone spoofing a reporter's identity if they have an @social.npr.com account.
I just had a horrible idea... what if Microsoft offered you the possibility of creating a federated account for you, on their own instance, for free, for example as you install Windows or activate a Microsoft service somewhere? Microsoft would carry the most weight around all instances, by default.
Omg, I created a monster!
cough Meta cough
That would be horrible and I'd have switched to BSD quicker than the screen would load on the Windows Install prompt
You switched from BSD to Windows???
Honestly, it'd be pretty neat if Microsoft setup their own instance and consolidated all of their communities onto it. The user part is optional. Since it was federated, you could post to it from other instances (right...? Provided they don't get black listed).
I feel like Microsoft has 10 different community forums for all different aspects of their business. Centralizing it onto an instance like this with magazines for each would actually be reallllllly helpful.
It probably wouldn't happen but that might be cool. It would be a lot easier for people to get into the fediverse if they already have an account.
The best thing for me is if big companies do come here and do that, I can use an instance that defederates from them.