Extending our Mastodon social media trial
www.bbc.co.uk
An update reflecting on 6 months of our trial in the federated social media space
  • Jo MiranEnglish
    9•8 months ago

    My favorite part:

    For some equivalent posts we’ve seen significantly larger engagement numbers for Mastodon compared to X/Twitter, particularly given the relative sizes of different platforms.

    • Value SubtractedOPMEnglish
      3•8 months ago

      Interesting, isn’t it? I saw a number of people making that same observation during one of the migration waves.

      • Jo MiranEnglish
        2•8 months ago

        I don’t do “Twitter style” social media much but when I did use my Mastodon account I found significant engagement. On Twitter my posts were invisible, but on Mastodon people found, liked, and commented on them. Conversation were good as well.

        I was a beta tester for BlueSky and I found the same “invisibility” problem there. Same posts on Mastodon, Twitter, and Blue Sky and only the Mastodon ones generated responses or any acknowledgement for that matter.

  • LemminaryEnglish
    3•8 months ago

    The link gives me a 404. Anybody else?

    • Value SubtractedOPMEnglish
      5•8 months ago

      Hmm yeah it looks like they deleted it for some reason. I’ll try to keep an eye out for whether it gets reposted.

      • @0110010001100010English
        4•8 months ago

        Looks like it’s back up now, no idea what they were doing.

    • Value SubtractedOPMEnglish
      3•8 months ago

      It’s an interesting idea, but I wonder if the “Twitter-like” design of Mastodon is more appealing to brands than the “Reddit-like” design of Lemmy.

  • FiveMacsEnglish
    -7•8 months ago

    Companies shouldnt be allowed on social media.

    • Jo MiranEnglish
      5•8 months ago

      Companies shouldnt be allowed to own social media.

      FTFY