"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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[–] emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've seen people say this, but how? Are any lemmy clients compatible with mastodon in the sense that you can follow people or instances? I thought that was the big draw of kbin, that it combined both.

[–] jocanib@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can follow Lemmy communities on your Mastadon account. But I wouldn't recommend it. You get a string of out-of-context posts dominating your feed.

[–] emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean I'd be more interested in it going the other way, and following a few mastodon accounts on my lemmy app. I'm not on mastodon and don't care to post there, but it'd be nice to be able to see some select things in my feed.

[–] toroknos_07@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Try kbin, they are still separate feeds I think but you get both on the same website

[–] jocanib@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Kbin does Lemmy and Mastadon.

[–] srai@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

From a mastodon users point of view a Lemmy user behaves like another Mastodon user. For instance this is what my Lemmy profile looks like from mastodon:

Lemmy communities also behave kinda like users:

Even though they boost ( e.g. "retweet" ) everything that has been posted to the community. Be it a thread or a new comment.

The big upside of kbin is, that it, as you said, combines micro blogging and news aggregation. While Mastodonusers can interact with lemmy content users on lemmy can only reply to comments posted from Mastodon. We have no real way to send a toot (e.g. "tweet") to mastodon deliberately.