February 16, 2023

425: Word of the Day: Engagement

58 minutes

This week on Rocket, the word of the day is ENGAGEMENT! Elon Musk has ordered Twitter engineers to boost engagement of his own Tweets. So that’s normal! Meanwhile, how are things going over on Mastodon? There’s some kerfuffle in the tech world over growth on the platform(s). Brianna and Christina discuss their own experience with the decentralized social network. Finally, Marcin Wichery joins us to discuss his history of keyboards, Shift Happens!

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Links and Show Notes: Support Rocket with a Relay FM Membership Membership - Relay FM Rocket | Cotton Bureau Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first The Mastodon Bump Is Now a Slump | WIRED Martin Holland (@fingolas) | Calckey Social Lazy Reporters Claiming Fediverse Is ‘Slumping,’ Despite Massive Increase In Usage | Techdirt Marcin Wichary (@mwichary) / Twitter Shift Happens Shift Happens: A book about keyboards by Marcin Wichary — Kickstarter