BBC starts trial with the Fediverse, running its own Mastodon instance

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36943866 posted ~40 minutes earlier.

BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media (bbc.co.uk)

ActivityPub is a W3C recommendation.

No competing distributed social protocol to my knowledge has gone through a standardization body and I would also say here this signals the death of web3.