So, the #BBC got here. And they're hosting their own server it seems...

https://social.bbc/about

BBC Mastodon

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

Mastodon hosted on social.bbc

@Ruth_Mottram

So, the interesting thing I note so far is that the only accounts so far on that instance is the accounts of basically the labs group that setup the instance, and a "BBC Taster" account.

It will be rather more useful once they have accounts setup for BBC News, various BBC shows, and maybe individual BBC jouranists and opinion writers.

Right now, there's not much content to engage with. I'm sure that's coming though.

The struggle is probably, internally, for something that the Beeb is just dipping it's toes into, most BBC employees probably don't want more work (posting to this instance), so unless there is a mandate from the top, it might go nowhere.

@LiveByReason @Ruth_Mottram judging by first posts, it is meant to test tooling required to repost content meant for other social networks here. If there is minimal friction, we might see most popular accounts appearing quite quickly.
There are already few BBC journalists posting actively here.