The BBC launches social.bbc, an “experimental” Mastodon server with posts from a handful of BBC accounts, and says it will try out the server for six months (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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The BBC launches social.bbc, an “experimental” Mastodon server with posts from a handful of BBC accounts, and says it will try out the server for six months  —  The BBC has launched its own “experimental” Mastodon server, marking one of the first major news outlets to establish an instance on the Twitter alternative.