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BBC Launches A Mastodon Instance

Hi! 👋 Here's our #introduction. We're BBC Research & Development; we explore and test new technology to discover how the BBC can best make use of it in the future. For 100 years our engineers have been at the forefront of developments in broadcasting. We're now researching how everyone could get TV & radio via the internet...

https://social.bbc/@BBCRD/110808429680242963

BBC Research & Development (@[email protected])

Hi! 👋 Here's our #introduction. We're BBC Research & Development; we explore and test new technology to discover how the BBC can best make use of it in the future. For 100 years our engineers have been at the forefront of developments in broadcasting. We're now researching how everyone could get TV & radio via the internet – along with all the flexibility and creativity that brings. 5G, AI, next-gen audio, UHD, personal data… we are investigating all these – and more! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzztGFXYR1Y

BBC Mastodon
Jul 31, 2023 at 3:30pmWeb
Show threadKaraJul 31, 2023

Honestly, this is really good to hear! More mainstream accounts will definitely get the fediverse a bit more credibility.

And here's a bit more from BBC:

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 Fediverse.

This is an experiment - we will run it for 6 months, and then look at how much value it has provided, how much work it requires to maintain and then decide whether and how to continue. We're learning as we go, and we'll write about what we discover in the hope that it might be useful for others. The BBC will continue its normal social media activity in the usual places.

We're starting off small with just a handful of accounts from R&D and our colleagues at BBC Radio, but we hope to be adding more accounts from other areas of the BBC soon:

  • @BBCRD
  • @BBC5Live
  • @BBCRadio4
  • @BBC_News_Labs
  • @BBCTaster
  • @Connected_Studio

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

Show threadsomasJul 31, 2023

@Kara

FYI to anyone who doesn’t realize, you can follow each of those @names individually or just use the url https://kbin.social/d/social.bbc to subscribe to all social.bbc posts in kbin

social.bbc - kbin.social

Explore Fediverse

Show threadAnonymousLlamaJul 31, 2023
Cheers for the link. Easy follow
Show threadDarkGamerJul 31, 2023

Glad to have you on the fediverse, welcome!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HF3x67VK9o

Ming Tea feat. Austin Powers - BBC One

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Show threadawkwardparticleJul 31, 2023
Welcome to controlling your own destiny.
Show threadnicetriangleJul 31, 2023
this is great news for the fediverse. thanks for getting on board
Show threadSnowboardBumJul 31, 2023
Was hoping NPR would have done the same when they quit twitter
Show threadCarlos SolísJul 31, 2023
And believe it or not, there are now people rallying for the BBC to be defederated. Sure I understand that the current British government is pushing some of their newscasters into less than reputable positions, but to ban the entire domain preemptively?
Show threadawkwardparticleJul 31, 2023
I guess people don't want the Fediverse to gain any popularity. If people consider BBC to be quintessentially evil, what news outlet would even be considered welcome?
Show threadHipPriestJul 31, 2023

Maybe some people actually don't want the fedi to become popular because they're into gatekeeping and despite saying 'it's the future' etc, actually just want it to stay small and underground?

And yeah, the BBC having a 6 month R&D experiment isn't exactly the same as a Fox News takeover (not that that would even be possible)

Show threadHipPriestJul 31, 2023

I saw one arts instance has defederated on the grounds that the BBC is a transphobic organisation. I would personally dispute that.

I think those people need to realise this is a massive step up for the fediverse. The BBC literally has global reach.

Show threaddarqAug 1, 2023

Eh, the BBC has definitely been involved in spreading transphobia.

I still think their joining the Fediverse is a good thing for the adoption of decentralised social media.

Both of those things can be true.

Show threadAnonymousLlamaJul 31, 2023
Always great to see more people / groups joining 🦙