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Derek Caelin is writing a book

"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. We think this is partly due to the culture of Mastodon, and partly because of some of the topics we’ve posted about."

bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2024-02-exte

Extending our Mastodon social media trial
BBC R&DExtending our Mastodon social media trialAn update reflecting on 6 months of our trial in the federated social media space
Feb 13, 2024, 06:27 PM·Public
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@derek Having spent years on Twitter, it's my impression that there were more bots than people there, and by a large margin. I think the most argumentative people were sitting in chairs in front of dozens of cellphones, posting supplied translations.

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Derek Caelin is writing a book

@steter My hypothesis is that the algorithm played a role in engagement, too. I seem to recall reading an article that stated links that would take people off X were/are de-prioritized

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@derek Somehow I missed that one, and I immediately believe it's true, lol. I have a low opinion of Jack & Elon's plaything these days.

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