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   Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 01:01:39 JST Richard MacManus

   So I got an email pitch from Chatham House, a UK-based "independent policy institute." They point me to an article entitled, "The UK riots force Western democracies to confront their reliance on technology giants". Nodding, I open the article and some of it is spot on, e.g.:

   "Western democracies are finally confronting a hard truth: the infrastructure on which their countries’ politics and information-sharing takes place is increasingly misaligned with their values." https://www.chathamhouse.org/2024/08/uk-riots-force-western-democracies-confront-their-reliance-technology-giants

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     Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 01:01:37 JST Richard MacManus

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     • BBC Research & Development
     • Tom Casavant

     @tom I just checked @BBCRD and they haven't posted recently. Same for BBC News a/c. So, not sure what happened there... anyone else know?

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 01:01:37 JST Børge

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     • BBC Research & Development
     • Tom Casavant

     @ricmac @tom @BBCRD They still have their own server, with a handfull of accounts on it, but just post on any of them like once every few weeks. I don't understand what's going on.

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     Tom Casavant (tom@tomkahe.com)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 01:01:38 JST Tom Casavant

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     @ricmac Is the BBC research department still running an instance or did they conclude the experiment?

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     Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 01:01:39 JST Richard MacManus

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     But in the very next paragraph:

     “Alternatives are non-existent: there is no BBC social media platform, for instance. In the wake of counter-protests on Wednesday, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper thanked law enforcement on – where else? – X. The post was subsequently shared through the Prime Minister’s account on the same platform.”

     Hang on…there *are* alternatives. Ever heard of a decentralised social media app called Mastodon?