2y ago

BBC Mastadon server

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The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media - Lemmy.world

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

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Truth is subjective, for world news, yeah they're pretty on the ball, for UK domestic news, they're biased as fuck.
- 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.
  
  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.
- 100%.....I was making more of a comparative rather than assuming an absolute position. 👍
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.
- 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.
  
  Eh... that's their problem and they're free to defederate as long as they don't harass others to defederate.
  
  What did they do that is supposedly transphobic?
The Netherlands did something similar. More countries should follow!
- I think it makes perfect sense for groups like these, that will potentially have a lot of official accounts under one umbrella. A bit like an unofficial official badge, knowing a profile comes from a certain instance gives it a sort of credibility.
- tbh every corporate should as well for their official social media outlets.

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