WiselyChosen
BBC Radio 5 Live👋 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
Tom Schaffer@BBC5Live Welcome, great move.
tim dalton@BBC5Live Welcome and thank you.
@BBC5Live I enjoy seeing this :)
RobertJacksonWelcome!
Please encourage your reporters to open Mastodon accounts ... They'll get an appreciative audience here.
⚡Thierry Talbert🐧@BBC5Live Welcome to the fediverse. 🎆🎊
xanatax 🐰@BBC5Live … Welcome to the Fediverse. & 👋 Greetings from CBC land. 🇨🇦
Bruno Flávio@BBC5Live welcome!
🇺🇦 Optimisey 🇺🇦
8tpercent@BBC5Live BBC breaking news next to join?
maiamaia@BBC5Live hi, I love news but hate sport. What fraction/ratio can I expect? Also, I'm not interested in "breaking news" - for that, I follow locals or specialists on here or twitter - I'm interested in analysis. What sort of news should I expect? Thanks a lot!
Joseph Morris
Hallenbeck@BBC5Live For the love of almighty, please use hashtags to identify posts about sporting events and teams. It can take a while to learn the quirks and which ones people actually use. But they're essential.
But you can forget about all the others anyway and just focus on #COYS. Enough news coming out of Spurs every day to fill a whole timeline. No other teams are relevant anyway. 🙃 🤍
Mollarom@hallenbeck @BBC5Live ☝️ Couldn't agree more.
Rikev@BBC5Live Been waiting for you to appear! Welcome. :)
NyxThis is the way.
Will Phoenix@BBC5Live it would be nice to be able to use this platform to get back in contact with the studio again. A lot of people lost that ability when they came off the old birdsite. You'll find alot of people here arnt on other social networks such as myself . I sort of use whats app but only to talk about vinyl but 5Live isnt on it either anyway.
Anyway just wish Colin Murray would join up.
Wiredfire 
@Whiskeyomega @BBC5Live collecting the fractured landscape for social media now I can imagine makes using it as an inbound route for studio contact is painful.
Mastodon along wouldn’t be enough, it would need to be Threads and BlueSky and whatever else pops up. Then that’s going to be an in-studio pain to manage as there no unified view for all.
You know what would work though? The oldest federated platform know to mankind: email 😜
@Whiskeyomega @BBC5Live email is the absolute only communication method essentially guaranteed to be available and usable by 100% of people online.
It is fantastic and really needs to be better utilised again. Less great for some personal conversations I appreciate with the general lack of e2ee but for less sensitive topics and things like contacting a studio is it.. perfect.
@wiredfire @BBC5Live Yea Email is the one platform that is actually universally used at the BBC but what annoys me is the BBC continued to be massively into twitter for communication to their output.
I guess im just not into using email for a quick message and see it as more formal communication
@Whiskeyomega @BBC5Live that’s a shift, seeing email as formal, I’m trying to challenge.
We’ve started sending out some family updates to friends & family via email so as not to share personal pictures & news on Facebook etc.. and it actually feels a lot more meaningful, more personal. It’s directed at an included audience rather than thrown on a digital kitchen notice board for whoever happens to pass by to see 😊
Alex Ryan@wiredfire @Whiskeyomega @BBC5Live
The problems with email that leap out at me are:
1. Length - before opening a message, it's hard to know how long of a time commitment it will be;
2. Organisation - unlike Social Media, replies are all on the same 'feed' as the people you follow, so if it's a fairly public or especially a controversial figure, your email inbox is going to fill very very quickly. Or if the replies aren't public, you won't have any interaction from other users at all on them.
The problems with email that leap out at me are:
1. Length - before opening a message, it's hard to know how long of a time commitment it will be;
2. Organisation - unlike Social Media, replies are all on the same 'feed' as the people you follow, so if it's a fairly public or especially a controversial figure, your email inbox is going to fill very very quickly. Or if the replies aren't public, you won't have any interaction from other users at all on them.
@Lakeomancy @Whiskeyomega @BBC5Live
1. Not an issue. Long email? Mark unread come back later or archive / delete if not interested. Beats social media where if you don’t read it now or vanished down the feed.
2. I don’t know.. Mastodon, Twitter, Facebook.. most social media revolves around a single feed too. Lists or custom feeds require user effort, which can be easily replicated on most email services with rules and folders / labels.
As to replies..
@Lakeomancy @Whiskeyomega @BBC5Live I’m not suggesting email replace social media as a formal of social media.
I’m suggesting it replace SM as a communication platform for entities like BBC etc.. and as a better way to connect with those close to us.
I send an email, if people want they can hit reply. The recipients don’t need to see each others replies - it’s not social media.
Ruth Mottram
Psy Chuan 
@BBC5Live You're not welcome, go away. trans rights.
Steveb63@BBC5Live Thank You :)
derjannik@BBC5Live best move and good luck!
shellkr @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...
@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...
James Harris - Find my bridged Bluesky account@BBC5Live +1 for a BBC Sounds account
eyrea 🇨🇦@jbwharris @BBC5Live +2! Most of the podcasts I listen to are on Sounds. It would be so great if they were on Mastodon!
thatdosbox
Martin@BBC5Live Good to see you here too :)
Jenny Z., This Puzzle Piece@BBC5Live Welcome! So glad you are here! I have followed this account and look forward to reading your news updates.
Thanks for being a news organization that can imagine life after Twitter.
Wendy MsGator 🐊A tentative welcome to you. You play nice with us and we'll play nice with you.
Mrinappropriate
Doug Baker - Elbows Up! 🇨🇦@BBC5Live As long as you understand there’s more to sports than cricket and football.
Nadeem@BBC5Live so good to have you here (hopefully on a permanent basis)
Brian Grinter
Empiricism@BBC5Live good choice, can read BBC content easier (although the RSS feeds are good too).
TallVenti@BBC5Live welcome!
@BBC5Live
I imagine setting up one Mastodon instance for all your accounts simplifies a lot in terms of keeping track of messaging and monitoring policy compliance, it's a good idea for any media org. Just bear in mind that like in real life, while you can set your own rules for what your instance says, you can't force any other instances to listen to you either.
I imagine setting up one Mastodon instance for all your accounts simplifies a lot in terms of keeping track of messaging and monitoring policy compliance, it's a good idea for any media org. Just bear in mind that like in real life, while you can set your own rules for what your instance says, you can't force any other instances to listen to you either.
David Anasco@BBC5Live welcome to decentralization and a more open internet!
Ginkaze
Duneland@BBC5Live
A bit of British news will make a welcome respite from American news!
A bit of British news will make a welcome respite from American news!
Tallastro 🇺🇦@BBC5Live When do you think you will start posting? I could use few good news feeds.
ElSteve0Grande@BBC5Live welcome, glad to have you. Definitely looking to follow some good accounts, especially if they are investigative reporters! Cheers 🇬🇧🇺🇸
@BBC5Live warm Welcome from Bavaria
Axel Foley@BBC5Live BBC, where the truth goes to die.
Ian Vincent 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇪🇺@BBC5Live
Welcome! as a daily listener I am happy you are here.
Welcome! as a daily listener I am happy you are here.
Earthy in EV heaven@BBC5Live hello and welcome
@BBC5Live Welcome BBC5!
Hilary Palmén@BBC5Live
Welcome! In the soirit of listening, try following the by lines journalistic series, i find them an excellent complimentary perspective.
Welcome! In the soirit of listening, try following the by lines journalistic series, i find them an excellent complimentary perspective.
Lee 🌏@BBC5Live
Can you ask Carol Vorderman to join Mastodon?
Can you ask Carol Vorderman to join Mastodon?
@BBC5Live good to see you here and thank you.
Rosamundi@BBC5Live can you bring Test Match Special over, please?
LonM@BBC5Live I'm surprised they didn't give the BBC Click programme an account
zilla@BBC5Live welcome