Notices by Martin Holland (mho@social.heise.de), page 2

Haut endlich ab!

Auf #X gibt es momentan eine Austrittswelle. Soll man die Plattform nun den Rechten überlassen? Die Antwort ist leicht: Ja, der Ort ist verloren.

"X gleicht heute einem Haifischbecken voller Faschos und Trolle. Es ist ein Ort, wo #Musk mit der #AfD kuschelt und progressive Stimmen gemobbt und bedroht werden. [...] Wieso sollte man sich dort noch freiwillig auf­halten?

#ElonMusk #TwitterÜbernahme #Twitter #SocialMedia #TwitterMigration #TwitterTakeover

https://taz.de/Deutsche-Organisationen-verlassen-X/!6014969/

So, before beginning my 4 months of parental leave in June, I wrote an article for @heiseonline describing, why one on #Threads should activate federation with the #Fediverse. I did this in anticipation, that this option would become availabla in the EU while I'm gone.

After almost two months, it's still not here. Seems like preparing the article wasn't necessary. Will it come before christmas maybe? 🙄

#Mastodon #SocialMedia #Meta @fediverse

The update for #Mastodon patching the bug in the preview is near, so it's time for a last look at #traffic sources for @heiseonline:
#Twitter keeps decreasing and is already overtaken by Mastodon (thx also to problems with our bot for #X, when it works, X brings more people).
#Flipboard and #Facebook are growing again, #Bluesky and #Threads are far behind. But Threads brings already more traffic than Bluesky, although we can't autopost (every link) there.

This post can reach not only #Mastodon & the #Fediverse, but beyond like #Bluesky. How far can it go?

I have built a tool to aggregate, with what software and from which instance it is boosted (or faved). Please share far, to show where you're seeing this.

#SocialMedia #Sharkey #Akkoma #Firefish

Just so you know: Of the 10 accounts with the largest followings in the #Fediverse only one is not on #Threads. In the Top50 there are only 6 accounts from #Mastodon, the rest is on Threads.
And that just days after the first birthday of Threads.

Source: https://most-followed-mastodon-accounts.stefanhayden.com/ or @MostFollowed by @stefan

#TwitterMigration #MastodonMigration #SocialMedia

Well, asking individual accounts on #Threads or #Bluesky to turn on federation or following the account of #BridgyFed yields some positive results. But more often than not, there's no reaction. And this does not exactly scale either.

Any idea how to get way more connections between the two networks and the #Fediverse & #Mastodon?

Searching on #Threads and #Bluesky for accounts, who should be visible in #Mastodon and the #Fediverse makes me realize, how much more lively, diverse and frankly fun both networks seem to be. Would like to see more of that here, too.

And also in english:

The Fediverse is growing: After Threads, Bluesky can also be linked to Mastodon

First Threads accounts can be opened for Mastodon, now this is also possible - even in both directions - with Bluesky. This makes interesting scenarios possible.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/The-Fediverse-is-growing-After-Threads-Bluesky-can-also-be-linked-to-Mastodon-9745631.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege

#Bluesky #Fediverse #Mastodon #SocialMedia #Threads #Bridge

So, @verge and @404mediaco want to federate their site. The articles would then be accessible directly in the #Fediverse, e.g. in a #Mastodon-Feed.

But why? I'd really like to collect arguments for this. What would the advantages for, say @heiseonline be? Please share and comment!

Why publishers are preparing to federate their sites - Digiday

https://digiday.com/media/why-publishers-are-preparing-to-federate-their-sites/

#SocialMedia #Federation #News

"In fact, 41% of different names given to babies in England and Wales are ‘incorrect’, according to Microsoft’s English (UK) dictionary.

And guess what? They are disproportionately African and Asian in origin. Some are Eastern European. Some are Scottish, Welsh or Irish. This doesn’t reflect a diverse, inclusive society."

#IAmNotATypo #SpellCheck #AutoCorrect

https://www.iamnotatypo.org/dear-tech-giants

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/22/people-with-commonly-autocorrected-names-call-for-tech-firms-to-fix-problem

In the latest episode of his podcast #SearchEngine @pjvogt talks about how #Google might soon destroy many #news websites:
https://megaphone.link/CAD6984549408

Guest @caseynewton makes the case, that the #Fediverse might save the "good internet".

But both are just scratching the surface and PJ later asks the listeners, if he should make an episode about the Fediverse. I would really like to hear that. But with whom as guest/expert? @mike ?@tchambers ? Ideas?@reckless1280 ?

#Mastodon #SocialMedia #Threads

Swiss public broadcasters #RTS and #SRF are drastically reducing their communications via the social network #X (formerly #Twitter).

"Lately, SRF has not really been reaching its target audience on the majority of its X channels, a spokeswoman explained."

#ElonMusk #SocialMedia #Microblogging

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/workplace-switzerland/swiss-public-broadcasters-withdraw-from-x-twitter/76901650

@BeAware
I read that differently 🙂
Back in december I wrote an Op-Ed about how Meta "found something" to cripple federation. I still think that in a way, but I also think their arguments for doing it this way are valid.

@BeAware
That's sad, obviously. On the other side, there is no real upside for most users yet, they don't "see" the Fediverse. Maybe it'll change, when there is a real connection.

@BeAware
As far as I've seen it, it's just another question. Most will ignore it, don't you think?

I for one, still miss so much of the media here and think, this is currently the most promising way, to get them here.

There are so many accounts by the #news media on #Threads, that could but do not yet federate. Doesn't make much sense to ask here for them to do that, so I posted something over there.

If you have an account and want more of the media federating, feel free to share the post:
https://www.threads.net/@fingolas/post/C6W2vcxIHgA

I'm collecting the ones I find here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MKBARDB-JDI0BfiXvOhet0okFL_l2Au2uhzK6fmFK74/edit#gid=1993864896

#FediverseThreads #Mastodon #News #Newstodon

@Hamiller @morph

That sounds soooo complicated: What I meant was something along the line, what will it need to get my wife to use the fediverse? 😉

Some things, that come to mind for an app to "consume content in the #fediverse":
- make it very easy to manage lists
- make it very customizable in regards to what you see and how you see your timeline (long posts, videos, images etc.)
- an algorithm to find the most important things in your timeline
- make it work seamlessly between devices
- make it easy and intuitive to consume individual posts or content parts (articles)
- give the comment section a fine layout

I keep thinking about @ryanbroderick writing, that the #fediverse needs "its Gmail" for everyone to just use it and not think about, what they're using.
I do like that idea, but I'm unsure, what such a thing/app/platform would need to be. What do you think?

Should it be like a Web-App where you could use any account on #Mastodon etc.? Will it be yet another platform, that is just way easier to use?

What I'm asking is, how will people acces the fediverse, that are still not on #Mastodon?

I started a 4th self-updating table, this time of #Media accounts on #Threads that have activated federation (aka "that can be followed from #Mastodon). Is this useful, do we need that? I fear that this will grow quickly and I will definitely need help finding all acounts. But if there's interest, I can try.

Here it is (the Dashboard is not yet very useful, I know):
⏩ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MKBARDB-JDI0BfiXvOhet0okFL_l2Au2uhzK6fmFK74/edit#gid=1993864896

Suggestions of accounts are welcome.

#Fediverse #MastodonMigration #SocialMedia #news #press