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The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 2 years ago by jocanib@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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"As the social media landscape ebbs and flows, the team at BBC Research & Development are researching social technologies and exploring possibilities for the BBC. One part of our work is to establish a BBC presence in the distributed collection of social networks known as the Fediverse, a collection of social media applications all linked together by common protocols. The most common software used in this area is Mastodon, a Twitter-like social networking service with around 2 million active monthly users. We are now running an experimental BBC Mastodon server at https://social.bbc where you can follow some of the BBC’s social media accounts, including BBC R&D, Radio 4 and 5 Live. We hope to be able to add more accounts from other areas of the BBC at some point."

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[-] amanaftermidnight@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Nice, now a BBC in the fediverse is not just that thing.

We should support them as this is a pretty significant entity moving into the space. Leave nice comments, encouraging comments.

[-] heartfelthumburger@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 years ago

This is great. I don't really care about the BBC since I'm not from or live in the UK, but more decentralization is always good.

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[-] pencilled_robin@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

Pretty damn cool tbh

[-] dumples@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

For those on a Kbin instance you can follow the whole instance to see everything they post:

https://kbin.social/d/social.bbc

If this is a success many more should follow

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[-] gaw@lemmy.cafe 5 points 2 years ago

Wow this is greats news, hoping more people join federated social network!

[-] bron@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

The more exposure the better (for better or worse). As the fediverse grows we gotta watch for the growing pains of becoming a large social media platform.

[-] LexiconDexicon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

the BBC loves to push genocide denial, what a wonderful group of people over there in jolly old England

[-] gabe@literature.cafe 8 points 2 years ago

What are you referring to? Legitimately curious

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[-] toasteecup@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Sauce plox.

Update: I asked for proof, got downvoted and op updated their comment completely with no mention of the original comment. Super cool.

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[-] Elegast@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Nice. That's a good idea and I'm happy that the BBC is taking these kinds of steps. Followed the R&D account. Thanks!

[-] amlietra 3 points 2 years ago

Ah yes, more transphobic capitalist corporation on the fedi, surely federating with them will have no repercussion whatsoever /s Fuck them and anyone who federate with this bigots

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