Jay ๐Ÿ†˜

The #BBC has set up their own Mastodon instance! ๐Ÿคฏ

https://social.bbc/about

cc @gbhnews

BBC Mastodon

This is an experimental Mastodon instance run by BBC Research and Development.

Mastodon hosted on social.bbc
Jul 31, 2023 at 2:59pmWeb
Show threadJay ๐Ÿ†˜Jul 31, 2023

Their accounts so far:

- @BBCRD
- @BBC5Live
- @BBCRadio4
- @BBC_News_Labs
- @BBCTaster
- @Connected_Studio

Show threadJay ๐Ÿ†˜Jul 31, 2023

โ€œThis is an experiment - we will run it for 6 months and then decide whether and how to continue.โ€

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub

The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media

Trialling ActivityPub and the federated model for social media and it's possibilities for the BBC.

BBC R&D
Show threadJay ๐Ÿ†˜Jul 31, 2023
Haha they are basically getting DDOSโ€™d from all the attention and the server is timing out.
Show threadRachel GreenhamJul 31, 2023
@jsit @mekkaokereke @BBCRD assuming Threads does actually join the fediverse, all the problems we anticipate with the more *social* instances aside, it seems sensible now for corporations and large organisations to have their own instances that they can control to serve into *threads* as well as the rest of the fediverse.
Show threadJay ๐Ÿ†˜Jul 31, 2023
@StrangeNoises ๐Ÿ’ฏ
Show threadPaulJul 31, 2023
@jsit seems a surprisingly thoughtful and well described article
Show threadMichael แš‹แš”แš‰แš†แš“แšแš‚Jul 31, 2023

@jsit @Nicovel0 I think this is a brilliant idea.

Many of us are critical of the BBC's direction since 2016 but it remains licence-payer funded broadcaster to the nation. It is logical it should have a Mastodon server.

Show threadWinterbayAug 1, 2023
@jsit Thanks for pointing it out. Gave them a follow ๐Ÿ™‚
Show threadEthan WarringtonJul 31, 2023
@jsit It makes sense. That way they can have 100% control of all of their data. Smart move. Letโ€™s see if other large companies start doing it. #FederateEverything
Show threadNour ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ๐Ÿ‰Jul 31, 2023
@jsit @gbhnews I didn't even know they had their own TLD ๐Ÿ˜ฎ
Show threadgbhnewsJul 31, 2023
@autistic_enby @jsit I noticed that too. Shiny!!!