Jay 🆘Jul 31, 2023

The #BBC has set up their own Mastodon instance! 🤯

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
Show threadJay 🆘Jul 31, 2023

Their accounts so far:

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

Show threadJay 🆘Jul 31, 2023

“This is an experiment - we will run it for 6 months and then decide whether and how to continue.”

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 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 🆘
@StrangeNoises 💯
Jul 31, 2023 at 3:49pmWeb