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I’m surprised that the pro sports leagues haven’t tried this given all of their complaining about abuse on Twitter and IG. NBA teams are about to start paying
by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
I’m surprised that the pro sports leagues haven’t tried this given all of their complaining about abuse on Twitter and IG.
NBA teams are about to start paying middle-of-the-road players $60M per year, hiring a full-time mod team to support an official mastodon instance should be a drop in the bucket for them.
- capableweb 3y ago+ is great when you want to censor something that one of the players said but they refuse to delete it. Could also just straight up make everything players say go through a review queue and only approve things manually, skipping anything that could cause drama. Not saying that this would be better/worse for the public/players, but I certainly could see why the owners/companies would want to silo the players voice into platforms they themselves own.
- tomjakubowski 3y agoThe NBA and NBAPA just signed a CBA through 2030, if this does happen it won't be any time soon (and I doubt it would, banning players from using a social media site is pretty far reaching).
- halkony 3y agoPragmatic, but a marketing move like that has far-reaching consequences -- both in their relationships with social media companies and the normies that look up mastodon and associate it with "hackers."
- sunflowerfly 3y agoThis is perfect for a company like ESPN. They have enough sports writers working for them that they could instantly create the place sports talk happens.