(1/12) How I fell in love with social media & the EU, and made that my whole career, a thread.
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(12/12) So that’s it for my little summary on a 10-year social media career in international politics. I like to say it’s a career that grew up with me. If I were a comic book character, this would be my origin story.
PS: My mom does think it’s a real job now.Back to the top of the thread: https://eupolicy.social/@hpod16/115957707831878119
@hpod16 thanks for the long nice story. I enjoyed finding out about your path that led you here...
As for me, I've never been much for social media. Didn't know what to do with it. But when intelligence sharing for Ukraine was cut off in March '25 I went completely digital sovereignty fundamentalist. And that included getting a European Mastodon account.
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@leanderlindahl @tizianomattei @oelschle
Is there some way to see what the most popular posts on Mastodon are in a given week?
Asking because of the EU account, not my personal one.
@hpod16
I know there's a "trending" feed, but it's not weekly.
The right person to tag is probably the admin of your instance.
(I'm not on Mastodon btw, as you may notice -- I'm on Friendica. Fediverse power in action)
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@hpod16 @tizianomattei @oelschle there's a whole bunch of statistics and "trending"-bots, but I don't have the answer let's hope someone else chimes in.
There's @murmel_social and @topstories but I think that's per 24h, not week.@leanderlindahl @hpod16 @tizianomattei @oelschle I don't think anybody is keeping per week stats. You could program a Python script and poll a few servers' trending pages and accumulate into a database (What's trending also depends on the server, because servers don't see the complete Fediverse). https://mastodonpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/08_instances.html#trends
For Hashtag trends, there's also https://fedi.buzz/
For trending links, there's @trending
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(12/12) So that’s it for my little summary on a 10-year social media career in international politics. I like to say it’s a career that grew up with me. If I were a comic book character, this would be my origin story.
PS: My mom does think it’s a real job now.Back to the top of the thread: https://eupolicy.social/@hpod16/115957707831878119
@hpod16 I appreciate your story and honesty very much
Btw, not sure if you already knew: when you put hashtags at the very end of a post (at least two), Mastodon rearranges them, so that they're not "invasive".
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@Tony_Meredith I just think all people take social media jobs more seriously now, not only my mom. But she probably especially likes the fact that I have a stable income and don't borrow money from my parents anymore
@hpod16 Yes. Doing well is quite persuasive with parents.
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(12/12) So that’s it for my little summary on a 10-year social media career in international politics. I like to say it’s a career that grew up with me. If I were a comic book character, this would be my origin story.
PS: My mom does think it’s a real job now.Back to the top of the thread: https://eupolicy.social/@hpod16/115957707831878119
@hpod16 I wish I could read your beautiful thread as a blog post. May you share some of your blogs? What were they about?
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@hpod16 I wish I could read your beautiful thread as a blog post. May you share some of your blogs? What were they about?
@everton137 oh no, no no, We don't want to dig up my cringy blogs from my teen years and early 20s.
Let sleeping dogs lie - and let tumblr blogs fade into the ether of old internet servers... -
(1/12) How I fell in love with social media & the EU, and made that my whole career, a thread.
This isn’t TikTok (thankfully), but let’s do a bit of *Storytime* anyway.
I’m Hannah and I’m a social media manager for the EU.
Sometimes I still can’t believe that’s my real job.@hpod16 I read a thread by someone brave enough to make a few though choices , to find a place and role you like. Great read!
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@zotheca That's in my opinion a general challenge on the Fediverse with private run servers and no unified consent e.g. on the minimum info that should be provided that state "... is a privately run...".
Don't get me wrong, I love the Fediverse and that everyone, who wants to, can run their own little or bigger space, but this shows there should be ways for us to verify those.
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(10/12) In 2018 I went back to University, joined a political party and started campaigning for the 2019 European Elections. When COVID hit in 2020 I was between graduating from my Masters in Eastern European Studies (
Slava Ukraini) and doing yet another internship, this time with a Member of the European Parliament. Doing social media to get votes was definitely different from communicating on behalf of an institution...@hpod16 have you actually been to #Ukraine? And if yes, how many times?
Me personally (the 1. time) in late 2013, right after visiting
. Crossed the border and visited #Lviv. Had a remote friend there, which I gave a brief visit. Only then started to realize, Maidan protests started in #Kyiv!It's roughly since then, when I started (or maybe just intensified) fighting
propaganda, along with the far-right and fossil ones.Wished I had a chance to visit the southern east of
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@leanderlindahl @tizianomattei @oelschle
Is there some way to see what the most popular posts on Mastodon are in a given week?
Asking because of the EU account, not my personal one.@hpod16
There are some stats you may find interesting here, though I'm not sure you'll find what you're looking for: fedidb.com
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@hpod16 I read a thread by someone brave enough to make a few though choices , to find a place and role you like. Great read!
@sandorspruit I had a lot more luck than bravery, I would say. And besides, what else was I going to do? Be a lawyer? I don't think so. (I don't think any law firm would have hired me).
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@hpod16
There are some stats you may find interesting here, though I'm not sure you'll find what you're looking for: fedidb.com
@oelschle @leanderlindahl@tizianomattei @oelschle @leanderlindahl
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(11/12) Since 2023, I work for the European Commission (again). I mainly do community management, which means I spend a lot of time in the comments. It’s not always the easiest place to be. I’ve deprioritised my personal social media, and I’ve had to learn to manage my relationship to addictive apps and algorithms. Geopolitics play a bigger and bigger role for the EU, and that reflects on social media too. More people are asking themselves: can we still rely on the US and American tech giants?
@hpod16
Thank you for the long introduction!I hope you are up for a lot of comments in here then, this is the most conversational social media I have experienced outside of chat services (I grew up on IRC in the late 90s and 00s).
And I've seen a lot of people with Opinions about what the EU should and shouldn't do.
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@everton137 oh no, no no, We don't want to dig up my cringy blogs from my teen years and early 20s.
Let sleeping dogs lie - and let tumblr blogs fade into the ether of old internet servers...@hpod16 @eupolicy.social Haha, that's when the internet was fun!
When I quit my particle physics studies in Brazil, I started working on a social network project that used blogs to share scientific and educational knowledge. This took place between 2006 and 2009 at the largest university in South America.
The idea was to create a decentralized social media platform for research and educational centers that could communicate with each other.
That dream was ahead of its time, but today I see it's happening!
At that time, I learned a lot from blogs and early social media. There were great forums with healthy discussions.
I remember making a friend who told me how she came out. She was a biologist, and I was a physicist. It was interesting to learn about the subject, see the emotions behind the screens, and then become friends in real life.
In Brazil, I saw many cases where people used internet forums to realize that there was nothing wrong with being themselves.
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@sandorspruit I had a lot more luck than bravery, I would say. And besides, what else was I going to do? Be a lawyer? I don't think so. (I don't think any law firm would have hired me).
@hpod16 Hey, it’s a compliment!
