"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 Fediverse... This is an experiment - we will run it for 6 months, and then look at how much value it has provided"
👉🏾 Many brands are abandoning Threads (including #NFL)
👉🏾 Meta’s geo news ban of #Canada 🇨🇦 could have spooked BBC
👉🏾 Lack of public Threads API makes it difficult to automate posting news
👉🏾 BBC just prefers Mastodon
My pals in BBC World Service have been doing some awesome work on "lite" versions of their news articles (other page types to follow).
They essentially skip the Server-Side React hydration which means you end up with a simpler HTML+CSS page, no JS.
Page sizes drop significantly:
Neither BBC News nor any other British broadcast media gave any coverage of the HUGE Rejoin EU demonstration in London yesterday. This is a combination of state editorial control (BBC bosses are Tory party donors), media mogul control (more Tory party donors) and news being an advertising business, not a public service.
Ironically we have to leave it to France state news channel to report on it.
The BBC is not just the editors of The Today Programme, or Question Time. It is not just that Panorama about ADHD or Stephen Nolan’s Stonewall podcast
The BBC is also Yasmin Finney and Ncuti Gatwa on Doctor Who. It is Newsround. It is Horrible Histories doing the Bristol bus boycott. It is CBBC dramas for children about autism. It is a platform for new music of all kinds on radio. It has no ads.
Hating “the BBC” because of Tory news editors misses the bigger picture.
"... we’ve amassed around 60,000 followers across our six trial accounts, and we have had to do very little moderation of replies associated with our content.
"We’ve had really encouraging levels of engagement (i.e. replies, re-posts and likes) on Mastodon.
"For some equivalent posts we’ve seen significantly larger engagement numbers for Mastodon compared to X/Twitter, particularly given the relative sizes of different platforms"
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...
I’ve been reading some of the criticism of the BBC creating their own Mastodon instance. Those against fall mostly into “they promote Transphobia” or “they skewed Brexit coverage” Both seem fair.
BBC creating an instance is good for Fediverse. Period. Just because they are on your street doesn’t mean you have to invite them in for tea or read/boost their posts / support them at all
BUT - If BBC fails no one else you DO want to read will follow here.
Months after @tagesschau and @ZDF from Germany, yet still one of the earlier public broadcaster here on #Mastodon and the #Fediverse: The #BBC has arrived.
Also with their own instance, just as pioneered by @heiseonline 😉
What’s the BBC up to in the Fediverse? What have they learned so far from their experiments? And how is all this like the early days of the internet? In the latest episode of Dot Social, Flipboard CEO @mike chats with Ian Forrester (@cubicgarden), Senior Firestarter at @BBCRD. (How cool is that title, btw!)
I mean, yeah, I dislike some ways #BBC reports about matters but I am still happy they decided to participate in the #Fediverse.
Heck even if #CNN joins I will be happy, and I loathe their reporting.
You want decentralised #SocialMedia to gain popularity and diversity, or do you just want to keep it "pure" and populated by people who agree with you?
The #BBC are getting a lot of flak over their non-coverage of the #RejoinEU march in #London over the weekend.... while there was widespread coverage abroad, it failed to be mentioned (apparently, I no longer watch/listen to the BBC news) at all by the BBC.
Of all the anger, the best suggestion was that the next march should actually have Broadcasting House as its end point - mind you, I'm sure they's still manage to ignore that too.
But, hey, I'm sure the new Chair of the BBC will sort it out
"A #BBC analysis found the footage of an IDF spokesperson showing the apparent discovery of a bag containing a gun behind an MRI scanning machine, had been taped hours before the arrival of the journalists to whom he was supposedly showing it.
"In a video shown later, the number of guns in the bag had doubled. The IDF claimed its video of what it found at the hospital was unedited, filmed in a single take, but the BBC analysis found it had been edited."
La présentatrice Maryam #Moshiri a ouvert le journal télévisé de #BBC News en faisant un doigt d'honneur, sans se rendre compte qu'elle était déjà en direct.
As "Doctor Who" turns 60, it's time to pose that perennial question: Who is the best Doctor of them all? The BBC asked five fans to make their arguments. But which of this quintet do you think is the greatest? Tell us in the comments if your pick isn't on the list (we're fans of Christopher Eccleston).
"trees take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere when they are alive and, when they are chopped down, the carbon is stored in the wood. As long as the wood doesn't end up rotting or being burned, the carbon is not released.
About 200 trees went into Modvion's turbine tower."
This is amazing. When you look at the pics, you can see the area for ~200 trees. Not much more than the space for a turbine.
#Navalny in the #BBC Storyville documentary:
(in the case of my death) "i have something very obvious to tell you: do not give up, you are not allowed to give up. if they decided to kill me it means we are incredibly strong. We need to utilise this power, to not give up, to remember we are a huge power that is being opressed by these bad dudes. we dont realise how strong we actually are. the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing. so don't do nothing"
At the end of the day the #IDF has a documented history of fabrication and lies, #Gaza’s health ministry doesn’t.
And there is quite literally nothing Zionists can rage scream that changes those objective, evidenced facts.
That’s not me saying it, it’s the #WHO, who, despite rightie insistence to the contrary, is still the most respected global public health body by a mile.
So yeah… they definitely massacred those people trying to access aid.
The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media (www.bbc.co.uk)
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...