The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media - Lemmy.World
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“As the social media landscape ebbs and flows, the team at BBC Research & Development are researching social technologies and exploring possibilities for the BBC. One part of our work is to establish a BBC presence in the distributed collection of social networks known as the Fediverse, a collection of social media applications all linked together by common protocols. The most common software used in this area is Mastodon, a Twitter-like social networking service with around 2 million active monthly users. We are now running an experimental BBC Mastodon server at https://social.bbc [https://social.bbc] where you can follow some of the BBC’s social media accounts, including BBC R&D, Radio 4 and 5 Live. We hope to be able to add more accounts from other areas of the BBC at some point.”

This is interesting, hosting their own server. It is kinda like truth.social…but with actual truth.

  • Kerrangutan@lemmy.one
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    11 months ago

    Truth is subjective, for world news, yeah they’re pretty on the ball, for UK domestic news, they’re biased as fuck.

    • stellargmite@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      They officially represent British interests in their information, which is to be expected, as they act as a UK equivalent to Voice of America, RT, NHK, CCTV or any other international state broadcaster you can think of. Truth is not only subjective but constantly up for grabs. These old school but still massive (as far as reach) often opposing state broadcasters are somehow quaint in todays landscape.

      • Kerrangutan@lemmy.one
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        11 months ago

        No, they represent English interests, the bias against the other home-nations especially Scotland is incredible even from BBC Scotland itself, it’s quite subtle to an outsider but to someone who lives here, the BBC is not the impartial broadcaster that it’s meant to be anymore.

  • theDoctor@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Please do not link anything the Orange Idiot is associated with to a state sponsored service. Truth.social is so far separated from the BBC or any US sponsored service they may as well be in separate universes.

    What the BBC is doing would be akin to NPR or PBS starting a Mastodon instance, which I’m all for.

    • Fizz@lemmy.nz
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      11 months ago

      I saw a bunch of people getting upset and defederating cause apparently the BBC is transphobic. I followed because I’ve got hardly anything interesting to look at on mastodon.