[TECHCRUNCH] BBC is testing being on Mastodon, says fediverse better fit for public purposes than Twitter or Threads
[TECHCRUNCH] BBC is testing being on Mastodon, says fediverse better fit for public purposes than Twitter or Threads
In another sign of shifting forces in the social media universe, the UK's national public service broadcaster, the BBC, is dipping a toe into the fediverse by setting up its own Mastodon instance.
[ sourced from TechCrunch ]
I think the lack of a sorting algorithm in mastodon will make it hard for something like the BBC to gain a lot of followers. They put out so many posts that it will dominate any feed and overshadow friends that post once a day or so.
Maybe in the future we can use our selected algorithm to have different view in the timeline.
I think its going to help that they have different accounts on their instance for different purposes. While there will be fewer people discovering those BBC accounts, at least at first, someone can feel that their decision to follow a specific journalist or topic of coverage was well founded when it doesn't dominate their feed, but does keep them updated about stuff.