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The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by jocanib@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@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 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."

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[-] dumples@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

For those on a Kbin instance you can follow the whole instance to see everything they post:

https://kbin.social/d/social.bbc

If this is a success many more should follow

[-] amanaftermidnight@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

is there a way to subscribe to that from lemmy?

[-] dumples@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I don't think so since lemmy doesn't integrate with mastodon like kbin

[-] pbaesse@ursal.zone 1 points 1 year ago

@dumples @jocanib @amanaftermidnight how can i follow kbin from mastodon??

[-] Teppic@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Same old. Just follow specific users by copying their full ID (e.g. @Teppic @kbin.social without the space) onto the search on Mastodon and follow as normal.

We should perhaps use hashtags more here because that would would be another way for Mastodon users to find/follow kbin content.

Going the other way to contribute to a kbin magazine from Mastodon, If you want the post to appear in a particular magazine, simply mention it in the post content, for example, "@fediverse @kbin.social" (no space) Note it will appear in the Microblog section.