Trialling ActivityPub and the federated model for social media and it's possibilities for the BBC.

“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 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.”

  • sabreW4K3@lemmy.tfEnglish
    731·
    1 year ago

    It’s a news organisation, so it’s okay. We definitely want more journalists and news organisations in the Fediverse. I’d much rather have them directly on mastodon than the million different bird.tld mirrors.

    • Tatters@feddit.ukEnglish
      34·
      1 year ago

      Yes, and it also prides itself on journalistic values, unlike a lot of the Murdoch empire, for example.

      • m0nka@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        127·
        1 year ago

        yes, unless it reports on the Iraq war and use ‘embedded’ journalists or reports on the Syria war and instead of sending journalists on the ground, just reprints white house memos or reporting on lgbt issues and just parrots gender critical views. But apart from that, it’s integrity is 100%, or just the bar is too low these days, idk ;(

          • m0nka@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            28·
            1 year ago

            yeah, totally. But if BBC calls for your rape and lynching, and then you see your opinion downvoted, it only means lemmy is as toxic as reddit.

            • Chrüsimüsi@feddit.chEnglish
              4·
              1 year ago

              This seems quite a harsh accusation. Would you be able to link the BBC article where they called for someone’s rape and lynching.

              Btw, I assume the downvotes arrived because your posts seem a bit toxic 🤔 But you can prove me wrong, once you linked the article you mentioned.