👋 Hi, we're new here and we're looking forward to meeting you all! We'll be sharing stories from Britain's news and sport station and we'd love to know what you think. It's all part of an experiment with BBC Research & Development. More about it here: 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
@BBC5Live You are definitely doing it the right way by creating your own instance. That will ensure not only to follower you are who you are but it also gives you control. You can easily block or silence instances that are bad actors. Which gives you better quality correspondence. Abilities you could only dream of on other social networks...