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The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media (www.bbc.co.uk)
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"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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[–] 3 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

Just like on reddit, the escape character is a \. You can easily remember this by thinking of all the shrug emoticons that were missing their arm, like so: ¯_(ツ)_/¯ because the backslash wasn't itself escaped.

So, if you want to type a character that normally results in formatting, precede it with a blackslash.

\*checks notes* results in *checks notes* instead of checks notes.

Edit: This comment was confusing to format. haha

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