Trialling ActivityPub and the federated model for social media and its possibilities for the BBC.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2643049

“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.”

  • Platform27@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is great news. If services like Mastadon wants to succeed, it needs services like the BBC. Hopefully this will work out, and we’ll see more large scale companies become a part of the Fediverse.