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BBC Research & Development Feb 13, 2024

We’ve just published an update about this Mastodon trial which has been running for the last 6 months – you can read it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2024-02-extending-our-mastodon-social-media-trial

We are going to continue our trial here for at least another six months while we share our findings internally and seek more engagement from other BBC teams. We are also planning to start researching ways to publish more BBC content using ActivityPub.

#mastodon #ActivityPub #socialmedia

Extending our Mastodon social media trial

An update reflecting on 6 months of our trial in the federated social media space

BBC R&D

Jonny Clark Feb 13, 2024

@BBCRD
Great to have #BBC on #Mastodon.
The @BBCNews feed is fine but a separate feed for #sport would be ideal.

FinchHaven sfba Feb 13, 2024

@BelfastRoadster

The link you post is *not* to the BBC at Social.BBC but rather to a content aggregator:

@BBCNews @ press.coop

Press.coop currently has one (1) active user

Here: https://fedidb.org/network/instance/press.coop

It aggregates content (a lot of it as an rss bridge) and publishes as its own

"Press.coop imports RSS feeds from popular press sites to the fediverse, and is operated as a public benefit by hello.coop"

Here: https://press.coop/about

cc @BBCRD @BBCNews

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@FinchHaven @BBCRD @BBCNews Ah. That explains a lot. Thanks 👍