The BBC on Mastodon

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Post by _han » Mon, Jul 31, 2023, 3:15 PM UTC

Re: The BBC on Mastodon

#2

Post by system16 » Mon, Jul 31, 2023, 3:43 PM UTC

Nice to see a presence, but half a dozen accounts and not one that focuses on major news headlines? Aa it stands the unofficial bot that reposts from the Twitter account will still get more interaction from me.

Re: The BBC on Mastodon

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Post by riffic » Mon, Jul 31, 2023, 3:48 PM UTC

The BBC (or other orgs) can also implement ActivityPub directly into their existing content management systems.

Mastodon is great but you don't need to use it to participate in the federated ecosystem

edit: it's also news to me that the BBC has their own TLD. This opens up a lot of potential that others don't have the privilege of.

Re: The BBC on Mastodon

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Post by atchoo » Mon, Jul 31, 2023, 3:48 PM UTC

Hmm. My faith in the BBC's commitment to decentralisation and open standards has been damaged by the artificial month delay they added to their podcast feeds to try and drive traffic to their centralised Sounds app. I've been listening to the In Our Time podcast for 20 years and then they go and vandalise it as a growth hack. There is no way I am using multiple proprietary podcast apps so I end up listening to topical comedy a month out of date... which is just weird.

Re: The BBC on Mastodon

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Post by riffic » Mon, Jul 31, 2023, 3:49 PM UTC

system16 wrote: post #2

Nice to see a presence, but half a dozen accounts and not one that focuses on major news headlines? Aa it stands the unofficial bot that reposts from the Twitter account will still get more interaction from me.

I'd love to see these orgs put AP in their CMS. they could do things like @politics@bbc.uk, @sports, @finance, @entertainment, @breakingnews, etc, all on their own namespace they control.

Re: The BBC on Mastodon

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Post by uhtred » Mon, Jul 31, 2023, 3:56 PM UTC

does social media serve any purpose whatsoever besides marketing and PR, virtue signalling and self promotion?

honestly, what genuine use does something like twitter, mastodon, instagram etc have? No one even reads the shit other people post, they just use it to hook into their own material.

fucking weird world we live in now, where 90% of the population appears to be a narcissist.

Re: The BBC on Mastodon

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Post by petepete » Mon, Jul 31, 2023, 4:08 PM UTC

atchoo wrote: post #4

Hmm. My faith in the BBC's commitment to decentralisation and open standards has been damaged by the artificial month delay they added to their podcast feeds to try and drive traffic to their centralised Sounds app. I've been listening to the In Our Time podcast for 20 years and then they go and vandalise it as a growth hack. There is no way I am using multiple proprietary podcast apps so I end up listening to topica…

While I agree the delay is a killer for topical news/comedy content, it's hard to argue the same for In Our Time. In Our Time is the only show I regularly listen to in podcast form.

Re: The BBC on Mastodon

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Post by okasaki » Mon, Jul 31, 2023, 4:08 PM UTC

Great to see the world's premier peddlers of NATO-cheerleading and sinophobia now on an open protocol.

Re: The BBC on Mastodon

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 31, 2023, 4:14 PM UTC

atchoo wrote: post #4

Hmm. My faith in the BBC's commitment to decentralisation and open standards has been damaged by the artificial month delay they added to their podcast feeds to try and drive traffic to their centralised Sounds app. I've been listening to the In Our Time podcast for 20 years and then they go and vandalise it as a growth hack. There is no way I am using multiple proprietary podcast apps so I end up listening to topica…

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Re: The BBC on Mastodon

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Post by ChrisArchitect » Mon, Jul 31, 2023, 4:14 PM UTC

Interesting of course, but also a 6 month trial so whatever that means for commitment who knows.

Couple questions:

There's a .bbc TLD? Being used anywhere else? TIL

Who is hosting their instance - is it a third-party or did they spin up their own?