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The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 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."

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

there is also the possibility that I’m just an asshole

Me anytime I do anything that sometimes gets anyone slightly upset

I can’t figure out how to quote that comment. When I click the quote things it doesn’t work. I have settled with italics

Got it thanks

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can manually do a quote block the same as on reddit, just put a right-chevron (I don't know how to type it without it triggering quote, mine is the same key as ".") directly before the text

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just like on reddit, the escape character is a \. You can easily remember this by thinking of all the shrug emoticons that were missing their arm, like so: ¯_(ツ)_/¯ because the backslash wasn't itself escaped.

So, if you want to type a character that normally results in formatting, precede it with a blackslash.

\checks notes results in *checks notes* instead of checks notes.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Me anytime I do anything that sometimes gets anyone slightly upset

Exactly my thoughts.

p.s. You can quote using the ">" (greater than) symbol at the beginning of the line.

Disclaimer: please ignore my initial negative vote score, as I have the privilege of being bot-downvoted by CCP sympathizers because of comments on this post https://lemmy.world/post/2338419, there is also the possibility that I’m just an asshole.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Dude, get rid of that stupid disclaimer. Do you seriously put that at the bottom of all your comments?

No one cares.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

Love you too man!