It's kinda weird to think about a social network where businesses own their own presences, rather than relying on a capricious third party service like Twitter or Facebook. Imagine NBC or The Verge running a Mastodon instance for their reporters to toot from, or Bethesda operating an instance for PR and customer support. No more lost business when Facebook changes their algorithms again because they need more money from boosted posts.
Weird, right?
@alahmnat As someone who has run commercial social accounts the landscape at the moment is desperate. There's a tug of war between creating quality content and then having to offset some of that budget for promoting posts which hurts. From a personal perspective I hate seeing sponsored posts it ruins my experience which should be all about online discovery. While early days I'm loving the fact Mastodon could and hopefully will disrupt the wasteland that Facebook has created.
