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The BBC starting a fedi server is a good step and a pretty big deal. Only using it for BBC staff is the right move. If they should decide to host randoms they should do it from a different domain anyway.

Will be interesting to see how their six month experiment proceeds. How their moderation of replies works and how they'll report or defed other servers as required.

Will Facebook turn on federation before the experiment is over?

Hope it goes well and they continue afterwards and indefinitely. Be nice to them everyone.

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Like 31 Jul 2023 at 16:33 | Wall-to-wall | Open on boing.world

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👻👻 Flippin' spook, Tucker!

@pre They have an accompanying blog post https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub which contains this very encouraging sentence:

"The principles of the Fediverse, with an emphasis on local control, quality content, and social value, are far more aligned with our public purposes than those of avowedly commercial networks like Threads or Twitter."

31 Jul 2023 at 16:34 | Open on social.chatty.monster

Adam Dalliance

@losttourist Yes, the BBC is mostly pretty good when the government isn't interfering with them.

It's happening. We're gonna redecentralize the whole web.

31 Jul 2023 at 16:43 | Open on boing.world

CEO of Monoeye Dating

@pre @BBCRD "Boy, what's the *one* thing I want more of on fedi? Government and corporate propaganda!"

How about you go back to Twitter, Facebook, or Reddit if you want to be a corporate whore?

31 Jul 2023 at 19:38 | Open on bae.st