Breaking #FediverseNews
WOW! The BBC now as it's own instance!
BBC >>> https://social.bbc/about
"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 Fediverse... This is an experiment - we will run it for 6 months, and then look at how much value it has provided"
New BBC accounts you can follow: @BBCRD, @BBC5Live, @BBCRadio4, @BBC_News_Labs, @BBCTaster, @Connected_Studio
@mastodonmigration This looks great. Unfortunately, my instance doesn't seem to know about the BBC instance yet. Have to wait a bit.
@shuttersparks You mean if you search for one of these user names you don't get a hit?
As soon as you search, normal behavior would be to look them up and at that point your instance would know about them.
@clacke Yes. I've searched on the standard form @user@url. I can find the BBC instances on the open Internet but not through my instance yet. (I haven't tried in the last hour.) If I search on BBC, all kinds of BBC presences appear like tweet bots, etc., but not the BBC's own instances -- yet. I'll try again now and see what I get.
@clacke Yep. Still not getting it through my own instance with the "follow" option. The links take me to the BBC instance where it asks me to join the instance.
A search on BBC Radio 5 Live delivers only:
BBC Radio 5 Live
@bbc5live@bird.froth.zone
BBC Radio 5 Live
@bbc5live@bird.makeup
BBC Radio 5 Live
@bbc5live@birdsite.wilde.cloud
BBC Radio 5 Live
@bbc5live@beta.birdsite.live
BBC Radio 5 Live
@bbc5live@twtr.plus
So I'll wait for things to propagate some more.