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

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you read this as the #nsfw version it's a lot funnier.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the massive (pun intended) drawback of hashtags. Unless you actually wanted to follow a mix of news and porn.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

"Unless"?
That's a good time, my friend!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

is there a way to subscribe to that from lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I don't think so since lemmy doesn't integrate with mastodon like kbin

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[–] [email protected] 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is it possible to follow their account if I'm on Lemmy.world? I'm sorry I'm new to all this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

You can follow Lemmy communities from Mastadon but not the other way around. And it doesn't work well anyway.

You can use Kbin for both Lemmy and Mastadon.

But Mastadon content is not very Lemmy-like so if all you want is the BBC toots, but not a Mastadon account, you might as well bookmark bbc.social and scroll it occasionally.

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