BBC has opened an account on the decentralized social platform Mastodon and is conducting tests.

According to BlockBeats news on August 1st, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has opened an account on the decentralized social platform Mastodon and will conduct a half-year test. After considering factors such as user participation and cost, BBC will decide whether to continue operating on Mastodon. BBC stated that the principles of Fediverse emphasize local control, high-quality content, and social value, which is more in line with its public purpose than open commercial networks such as Threads or Twitter. BlockBeats notes that Fediverse refers to an interconnected server network used for network publishing and file hosting, and these servers communicate with each other using an open standard. The most famous service in Fediverse is Mastodon, which is a social network and communication system similar to Twitter, and communication is implemented based on a standardized protocol called ActivityPub. Users who join this Fediverse can communicate with each other.