"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] 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (5 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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year 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 1 year 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!

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