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maehara Jul 31, 2023

BBC Research & Development

Hello to our new followers, which, for the one and only time, is everyone...

We'll be verifying our account very soon, but in the meantime, our top level domain should hopefully help confirm our identity, and we've also written about why we're here on Mastodon, what was involved to get here, and the other BBC accounts you can follow.

Say hi, follow and give us a boost!

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

Gabbo the wafrn dev guy Jul 31, 2023

@[email protected] any advice to enjoy bbc outside the uk?

@BBCRD Hi BBC media person and or team :3 I hope you have a good day im proud of you

BBC Research & Development Jul 31, 2023

@Chalkllate 👋

This account has moved Jul 31, 2023

@BBCRD A very warm welcome. Very good to see you here.

Mackaj Jul 31, 2023

Welcome. Great to have you folks join the Fediverse.

Hopefully over time you'll add accounts here that promote content from your news feeds. Today I have to follow bot accounts from random instances that scrape and re-publish your content from Twitter ( 𝕏 ). Would be nice to have a reliable authentic source.

Also looking forward to see what else you get up to :)

Kenneth Jul 31, 2023

@BBCRD Welcome to the club! Come on in, the water's fine...

Mike Liebhold Jul 31, 2023

@BBCRD Welcome! Thanks BBC for igniting a guiding light for other serious journals, journalists and organizations to follow into the fediverse.

Emma (IPG)Jul 31, 2023

@BBCRD Hi bbc

BBC Research & Development Jul 31, 2023

@ipg 👋

Michael Veale Jul 31, 2023

great to see @BBCRD and @BBCRadio4 etc on the fediverse...! although buying a gTLD is an expensive way to verify yourself (upward of $150k...)

Michael Veale Jul 31, 2023

@BBCRD @BBCRadio4 also exciting to see a new legal basis for Mastodon data protection — public task, based on the BBC's royal charter

Angela Glansbury 🚽Jul 31, 2023

@mikarv @BBCRD @BBCRadio4
wait, $150k, is this real?

Christian Kent 𝘊𝘒 :＼﹥Jul 31, 2023

@floppyplopper @mikarv @BBCRD @BBCRadio4 Peanuts for a country the size of the UK and it's a virtual real estate you should claim, especially in that industry.

My name is Gloria Actually Jul 31, 2023

@mikarv @floppyplopper you have to remember they got a shitton of money and get to depreciate it or write it off through accounting. It would be like us investing in a decent external hard drive or a good keyboard. Maybe not necessary but definitely a good idea.

Angela Glansbury 🚽Jul 31, 2023

@mikarv @BBCRD @BBCRadio4
ok, I just realised who else might be interested in buying dot bbc and on the face of it this is a really sensible use of money.

Haelwenn /элвэн/

@mikarv Erm, ccTLD are country-code TLDs, I don't think the BBC is a country. ^^

Chris Silverman 🌻Jul 31, 2023

@lanodan @mikarv yeah, I was wondering if they meant a brand TLD, like .bbc. I can see how a brand TLD would cost $150k, especially if the primary users are large companies/orgs as they seem to be right now.

Michael Veale Jul 31, 2023

@lanodan yep, i meant gTLD, my error, will edit

dragonfrog Jul 31, 2023

@mikarv @BBCRD @BBCRadio4

For what it's worth, the .bbc TLD has existed since 2015. They don't seem to have made a lot of use of it...

https://icannwiki.org/.bbc

.bbc

.bbc is a Brand TLD being proposed in ICANN's New gTLD Program. The British Broadcasting Corporation is the TLD's manager. Nominet provides back-end technical support. The proposed application succeeded and was delegated to the Root Zone on 21 March, 2015.

icannwiki

mdransfield Jul 31, 2023

@mikarv @BBCRD @BBCRadio4 Buying domain names for lots of money is something for which the BBC has previous.

https://www.theregister.com/2005/10/05/bbc_domain/

BBC blew $375k on bbc.com

And for what?

The Register

James Harrison Aug 2, 2023

@mikarv @BBCRD @BBCRadio4 .bbc was bought ages ago when ICANN gTLDs first happened, because if you didn't buy it someone else could - so lots of gTLDs ended up being bought purely for brand protection. Makes sense to use it - the ICANN-required http://nic.bbc is all I knew existed on it thus far...

.BBC Domain

Jim Easterbrook Jul 31, 2023

@BBCRD I would have expected "social.bbc.co.uk" or "social.bbc.com", but if you say you own ".bbc" I'll believe you. (-:

masukomi Jul 31, 2023

@BBCRD Yay will @BBC be moving over ?

ExperiencersInternational

🇵🇸Jul 31, 2023

@masukomi @BBCRD @BBC it says on that account that it's not affiliated with BBC Studios lol

masukomi Jul 31, 2023

@experiencer @BBCRD @BBC bah. wtf. i guess someone just did it because BBC wasn't here yet.

Christian Kent 𝘊𝘒 :＼﹥Jul 31, 2023

@masukomi @BBCRD @BBC 🙏

Jason Robinson 🐍 🍻 🚴Jul 31, 2023

@[email protected] Hello 🤘

BBC Research & Development Jul 31, 2023

João Tiago Rebelo Jul 31, 2023

@BBCRD Olá e sejam bem-vindos! ("Hello, welcome!" in Portuguese).

BBC Research & Development Jul 31, 2023

@jt_rebelo 👋

Dwight Williams (💉 x9)+😷🇨🇦Jul 31, 2023

@BBCRD Welcome aboard!

mmu_man Jul 31, 2023

@BBCRD we were waiting for you!

Łukasz Słupski Jul 31, 2023

Hello @BBCRD 👋
I hope social.bbc/@BBCWorld and social.bbc/@BBCNews will start tooting soon.

BBC Research & Development Jul 31, 2023

@lukaszslupski 👋

Bumble Jul 31, 2023

@BBCRD Awesome to see you guys here on the #fediverse. Welcome

BBC Research & Development Jul 31, 2023

@BBCRD Hello BBC! Hope you stay in the Fediverse!

BBC Research & Development Jul 31, 2023

@Ewan 👋

Rihards Olups Jul 31, 2023

@BBCRD Tā, @airisa, tūlīt te būs visi, izņemot Latvijas organizācijas…

airisa Jul 31, 2023

@richlv @BBCRD Mhmm. Baidos, ka Tavas prognozes ir diezgan precīzas.
Bet forša ziņa par BBC.
Un vispār otra foršā lieta man te ir communities opcija un iespēja visādas instances salikt kaudzītē un paskatīties, kas tur notiek.

Daveybot Jul 31, 2023

@BBCRD Hello! I'm glad you've joined, and look forward to various other branches of the BBC also joining in!

The Void ザ・ヴォイド Jul 31, 2023

@BBCRD Boosted! Great to see you here, & hope to see a lot more BBC folk joining social.bbc soon! Good article too, thanks.

Andrew Jul 31, 2023

@BBCRD be great if you can toot here when new stations/channels/programmes/presenters are added to be able to follow them, BBC Radio 6 soon please 🙂

Sian Jul 31, 2023

@BBCRD Very cool to see you here, thank you for testing the waters!

joël Jul 31, 2023

@BBCRD welcome! looking forwards to the TARDIS-account!

lnxgeek Jul 31, 2023

@BBCRD Welcome 👋

windhamdavid Jul 31, 2023

@BBCRD 👋🏼

Crowjane Jul 31, 2023

🙃 ɐıunp zsɐɯoʇ

@BBCRD you can get verified through https://Twittodon.com 😉

Twittodon.com - Connect your Twitter and Mastodon accounts and verify it!

bilbo_le_hobbit

@BBCRD welcome ! I can't wait for BBCRadio6 now...

Primm Jul 31, 2023

@BBCRD heya and welcome!!

remyla Jul 31, 2023

@BBCRD TL;DR connected accounts mentioned:
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@BBCTaster
@Connected_Studio
@BBC_News_Labs

Good move BBC

リーハイ Jul 31, 2023

@BBCRD This is super cool.

FurbyOnSteroids Jul 31, 2023

@BBCRD
Interesting. Experiment of 6 months to see if it's worth it regarding reach, risk etc.
Looking forward to the results and (hopefully) (semi-)regular updates on the way!

Prior Industry 🇺🇦Jul 31, 2023

@BBCRD Fantastic that BBC has decided to do this 👌

Emmet O'Neill Jul 31, 2023

@BBCRD Welcome BBC! It's cool to see the BBC leading the pack with regards to bringing official and reliable sources of media and journalism to the decentralized fediverse.

Hopefully what the BBC is doing here will serve as a template for other organizations to follow.

Stephen Ball Jul 31, 2023

@BBCRD Hi! Welcome to the fediverse space! I’m glad to see this experiment and hope it has good outcomes.

msgbi Markus Sagebiel Jul 31, 2023

@BBCRD @charles_ex