Mastodon MigrationJul 31, 2023

Breaking #FediverseNews 💥

WOW! The BBC now has an instance!

BBC >>> https://social.bbc/about

"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"

New BBC accounts you can follow: @BBCRD, @BBC5Live, @BBCRadio4, @BBC_News_Labs, @BBCTaster, @Connected_Studio

BBC Mastodon

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

Mastodon hosted on social.bbc
Show threadmem_somervilleJul 31, 2023
@mastodonmigration attention @gbhnews Look!
Show threadMastodon MigrationJul 31, 2023

@mem_somerville @gbhnews

Absolutely! You can do it too @gbhnews!

And, let's give a big shoutout to our media instance pioneers the Tucson Sentinel @TucsonSentinel and Texas Observer Lives! @TexasObserver

Show threadTexas ObserverJul 31, 2023

@mastodonmigration @mem_somerville @gbhnews @TucsonSentinel It's great to see BBC join the Fediverse with an instance!

Let's also shout out @restofworld, another early example of a publication with an instance

Show threadTacoJul 31, 2023
@TexasObserver @NTVNewsNL has been at it here locally for a while too
Show threadTexas Observer
@taco @NTVNewsNL cool!
Jul 31, 2023 at 5:23pmWeb