BBC Launches A Mastodon Instance

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• JakenVeina@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Would love to see more news outlets doing this.

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  • 001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Breaking News: Fox News has defederated NPR, PBS, BBC, NYT, Washingyon Post, The Associated Press, CNN, MSNBC, and various other mastodon instances run by what they deem as “the liberal woke media”. MSNBC defederates Fox News in retaliation.

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    • Mane25@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I know you’re joking but it wouldn’t make much difference to users if news organisations defederated from each other, most users will be on 3rd party instances.

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• GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is great to see, and I’m happy to see it’s R&D doing it, they’re definitely the right department to be trying things out.

  It’s nice to see the .bbc tld getting some use too! After a flurry following it being granted, they seemed to take down all the .bbc sites.

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  • christophski@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Bbc R&D is very cool, their blog is a great read and doing some very impressive work

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• HolidayGreed@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We’re now researching how everyone could get TV & radio via the internet

  We’ve all been doing this for years already.

  We’re now working hard to get TV License tax added to your home internet bills

  FTFY

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• Hotdogman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yup. Just need to double check the correct instance when open up an article at work or in public. Opening the wrong BBC instance would make things really awkward.

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  • Kara@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This morning I looked at the trending tab of my instance, and was pretty confused when #bbc was the first result. Glad that curiosity got the best of me though

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• seacocker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is great. I assume they’ll hope to federate with Threads, but I’m happy to follow them from Mastodon.

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• wren@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve yet to dabble in Mastodon, but this makes me want to properly check it out. Seems like it’s only a matter of time before more big names start following suit

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  • Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Definitely give it a try, although I would recommend Calckey/FireFish over Mastodon - it has more features.

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    • wren@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Noted, thanks!

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  • roldyclark@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mastodon etc is def the heart of the fediverse. I never used twitter, but I love Mastodon.

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• Ignacio@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In case someone wants to pay a visit to that instance, its name is social.bbc (neither bbc.social nor bcc.social, as it appears on that crosspost).

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  • Mane25@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Has this been corrected? I can’t find where it’s posted as bbc.social

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    • Ignacio@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, now it's corrected. But when I wrote my first comment, it appeared as bcc.social.

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• inkican@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Will this one cover up Jimmy Savile, too? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/nov/02/jimmy-savile-bbc-journalists-risked-jobs-reveal-truth

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  • HipPriest@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don't think the IT R&D team had that much to do with Savile. And you don't either.

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  • theodewere@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    ask about UFOs too while they're here

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    • ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I mean… the fact that elements within the BBC covered up the activities of Saville isn’t really disputable. That’s not a conspiracy theory, it’s just a crushing reality. Best case scenario, the BBC just negligently dropped the ball for decades and that just specific individuals swept it under the rug.

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