The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media - 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 [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.”

This is interesting, hosting their own server. It is kinda like truth.social…but with actual truth.

  • theDoctor@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Please do not link anything the Orange Idiot is associated with to a state sponsored service. Truth.social is so far separated from the BBC or any US sponsored service they may as well be in separate universes.

    What the BBC is doing would be akin to NPR or PBS starting a Mastodon instance, which I’m all for.

    • Fizz@lemmy.nz
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      1 year ago

      I saw a bunch of people getting upset and defederating cause apparently the BBC is transphobic. I followed because I’ve got hardly anything interesting to look at on mastodon.

            • elouboub@kbin.social
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              1 year ago

              It’s a single article The lesbians who feel pressured to have sex and relationships with trans women, which was previously named “We’re being pressured into sex by some trans women”, that’s being used as the brush to paint the entire BBC transphobic.

              If people bothered to read the decision which led to the amended article, and the amended article itself, they would read:

              Ultimately, it has been difficult to determine the true scale of the problem because there has been little research on this topic - only one survey to my knowledge. However, those affected have told me the pressure comes from a minority of trans women, as well as activists who are not necessarily trans themselves.

              and

              Angela created a questionnaire for lesbians and distributed it via social media, then published the results.

              She said that of the 80 women who did respond, the majority reported being pressured or coerced to accept a trans woman as a sexual partner.

              The survey was not statistically valid since the respondents were self-selecting and Get The L Out is an active campaigning group on lesbian issues. But while Angela acknowledges the sample may not be representative of the wider lesbian community, she believes it was important to capture their “points of view and stories”.

              The article is a description of the problems within the queer community itself that seem to be experienced by a minority, brought upon by the extremes of another minority.

              The reaction to call the BCC “transphobic” seems to me like a very twitter-esque reaction based in identity politics and hardline “if you’re not with us, you’re against us” tribalism.

              • Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz
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                1 year ago

                Rabidly screeching at anyone who disagrees with them is kinda a trademark of the trans community at this point, we also saw it with the debate around trans women in sport.

                They need to accept they’re not above criticism, and aren’t always right.

  • Kerrangutan@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Truth is subjective, for world news, yeah they’re pretty on the ball, for UK domestic news, they’re biased as fuck.

    • stellargmite@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      They officially represent British interests in their information, which is to be expected, as they act as a UK equivalent to Voice of America, RT, NHK, CCTV or any other international state broadcaster you can think of. Truth is not only subjective but constantly up for grabs. These old school but still massive (as far as reach) often opposing state broadcasters are somehow quaint in todays landscape.

      • Kerrangutan@lemmy.one
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        1 year ago

        No, they represent English interests, the bias against the other home-nations especially Scotland is incredible even from BBC Scotland itself, it’s quite subtle to an outsider but to someone who lives here, the BBC is not the impartial broadcaster that it’s meant to be anymore.