The BBC's experiment with Mastodon is pathbreaking in English-language news -- a major organization setting up its own instance. They've really thought this through. Key language:

"We're using social.bbc as the domain, so you can be sure these accounts are genuinely from the BBC. And by linking to and from the BBC’s website, we have verified our identity on Mastodon."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub

Welcome to:
@BBCRD
@BBC5Live @BBCRadio4
@BBCTaster
@Connected_Studio
@BBC_News_Labs

This week, I went over to Bluesky and asked people who'd left Mastodon why they left, and lots of people told me. I grabbed the replies and crunched them and wrote up a summary. I think it's really interesting and often kind of wrenching.

https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt

#meta

The @kollafoss is an Easter egg of my every game these days..

Finally, it's time to add it to Sweden stage of #ShakedownGame! 🤣

On stream in a few minutes..
#gamedev cc @esi

I finally published my #Blender => #Gltf => #Bevy #BevyEngine code & workflow

* Useful if you want to use Blender as your Editor
* define Bevy components as custom properties in Blender (JSON for now)
* no plugin or extra tools needed in Blender
* define components in Blender Collections & override any of them in your collection instances if you want
* code to auto add additional required components in Bevy (optional)
* minimal setup & code
* #opensource
* have fun:)

https://github.com/kaosat-dev/bevy-fun-examples/blob/main/examples/blender_gltf_components/README.md

this story is wild. Tesla misrepresented the range of their cars for decades, then created a team specifically dedicated to undermining customer efforts to schedule appointments and get help

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/