cross-posted from: https://kbin.projectsegfau.lt/m/fediverse@kbin.social/t/19913

Hi! 👋 Here’s our #introduction. We’re BBC Research & Development; we explore and test new technology to discover how the BBC can best make use of it in the future. For 100 years our engineers have been at the forefront of developments in broadcasting. We’re now researching how everyone could get TV & radio via the internet – along with all the flexibility and creativity that brings. 5G, AI, next-gen audio, UHD, personal data… we are investigating all these – and more! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzztGFXYR1Y

    • 001100 010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Breaking News: Fox News has defederated NPR, PBS, BBC, NYT, Washington Post, The Associated Press, CNN, MSNBC, and various other mastodon instances run by what they deem as “the liberal woke media”. MSNBC defederates Fox News in retaliation.

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        I know you’re joking but it wouldn’t make much difference to users if news organisations defederated from each other, most users will be on 3rd party instances.

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          You know a large portion of the FOX audience would only use their echo chamber of an instance.

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            These sorts of instances are private - you can’t sign up to them, only the new organizations post on them.

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              Where is it written that a corporate instance has to be private? Just because this one is doesn’t mean every single one would be.

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    This is great to see, and I’m happy to see it’s R&D doing it, they’re definitely the right department to be trying things out.

    It’s nice to see the .bbc tld getting some use too! After a flurry following it being granted, they seemed to take down all the .bbc sites.

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    We’re now researching how everyone could get TV & radio via the internet

    We’ve all been doing this for years already.

    We’re now working hard to get TV License tax added to your home internet bills

    FTFY

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    Yup. Just need to double check the correct instance when open up an article at work or in public. Opening the wrong BBC instance would make things really awkward.

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      This morning I looked at the trending tab of my instance, and was pretty confused when #bbc was the first result. Glad that curiosity got the best of me though

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    I’ve yet to dabble in Mastodon, but this makes me want to properly check it out. Seems like it’s only a matter of time before more big names start following suit

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    This is great. I assume they’ll hope to federate with Threads, but I’m happy to follow them from Mastodon.

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    In case someone wants to pay a visit to that instance, its name is social.bbc (neither bbc.social nor bcc.social, as it appears on that crosspost).

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        I mean… the fact that elements within the BBC covered up the activities of Saville isn’t really disputable. That’s not a conspiracy theory, it’s just a crushing reality. Best case scenario, the BBC just negligently dropped the ball as an organisation for decades and that just specific individuals swept it under the rug and avoided detection. Whether that tarnishes the entire the entire organisation forever varies based on opinion.