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The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media (www.bbc.co.uk)
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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] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only somewhat. Lemmy Communities show up as users when viewed from mastodon, that boost every single post and comment in the community (so browsing it is near impossible, and there is no sorting). Mastodon users can interact with posts (but can't downvote), and they can post by @-ing the community.

You can't follow mastodon users or view mastodon posts from Lemmy. I heard kbin had some functionality to do with this tho

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Gonna be honest, Fediverse is alpha as shit.

In terms of being unfinished, not chad-like.

This is gonna take a whiiiiiile to get real good, if reworking these things is even on the table.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's sad that I thought you meant the chad version first. My brain is corrupted

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

Refuse to work properly with other applications but still allow some functionality in a slightly different interfacing out of good will for each other

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I agree in a lot of ways. Lemmy does feel very beta at times. Mastodon does feel much more finished, except for the fact that favorites and boosts don't federate properly a lot of the time.

But this specifically feels perfectly fine to me. The fact that they're interoperable at all is more than I'd expect. Lemmy and Mastodon are so different in how they show content that I can't think of a much better way to do it (other than maybe having communities boost only posts and not comments when seen from mastodon).

How do you think they should be reworked to work better with each other?