BBC extends their Mastodon social media trial

JoMiran , 5 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.

ValueSubtracted OP , 5 months ago

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

JoMiran , 5 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.

Fiivemacs , 5 months ago

Companies shouldnt be allowed on social media.

downpunxx , 5 months ago

I disagree, I'm able to get world events while they are happening realtime, from both reporters and lay people, and see which way the event is being colored and manipulated by comparing the two. It's invaluable.

JoMiran , 5 months ago

Companies shouldnt be allowed to own social media.

FTFY

TropicalDingdong , 5 months ago

they should come over to Lemmy.

waters fine.

ValueSubtracted OP , 5 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.

Lemminary , 5 months ago

The link gives me a 404. Anybody else?

andthenthreemore , 5 months ago

Same. Very strange.

ValueSubtracted OP , 5 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.

0110010001100010 , 5 months ago

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