What constitutes a dream job in the #Fediverse? Ian Forrester is living the dream as Senior Firestarter at the BBC where he is helping to chart the way forward in the Fediverse for a highly influential global media brand. Check out my interview with Ian where we dive deep into the experiments the BBC is running, what they’ve learned so far and what a day in the life as a BBC researcher is like.
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@mike @cubicgarden Firestarter Forrester is a heck of a biz card
@pixelpusher220 @cubicgarden So true!!!
@mike @cubicgarden brilliant, looking forward to this for the morning commute!
@mike now listened. Really enjoyed it!
@cubicgarden particularly interested in your comments about the increased engagement on #Mastodon (and other #ActivityPub platforms) that you've presumably quantified and how that can be used as an incentive for journalists to interact more with audience (and vice versa). In turn, you'd hope that would drive users to use platform more, and so the larger audience would further justify journalists' time here. @fulelo may have thoughts on this.
@mike @cubicgarden @fulelo tangential question is how come you think there may be more engagement here at present. Do you think this simply reflects the smaller, relative enthusiast crowd? Or is it something else about the instance-specific moderation that weeds out more non-interacting noise / bots / etc..... Thank you