The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media
www.bbc.co.uk
Trialling ActivityPub and the federated model for social media and it's possibilities for the BBC.

The BBC are trailblazing a path to a better internet by launching their own Mastodon fediverse instance.

Journalist Dan Gilmore reports on Mastodon:

The BBC’s experiment with Mastodon is pathbreaking in English-language news – a major organization setting up its own instance. They’ve really thought this through. Key language:

“We’re using social.bbc as the domain, so you can be sure these accounts are genuinely from the BBC. And by linking to and from the BBC’s website, we have verified our identity on Mastodon.”

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