(1/12) How I fell in love with social media & the EU, and made that my whole career, a thread.
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@hpod16 @oelschle you're supposed to add a tag to a webpage named in your profile. https://joinmastodon.org/verification
But I think the domain you're using is sort of a validation in itself
https://eupolicy.social/aboutI guess maybe @oelschle isn't aware of that.
@leanderlindahl I took for granted that @oelschle was kidding. I mean, what does "upvote" even mean here?!
@hpod16
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@hpod16 Sorry. It's completely a side issue, but what eventually convinced your mom?
(In a previous generation, my dad as an old-school civil servant doing admin never really grasped my work in politics and policy.)@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
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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 Thank you for such an enjoyable and complete presentation! -
@leanderlindahl I took for granted that @oelschle was kidding. I mean, what does "upvote" even mean here?! @hpod16
@tizianomattei @oelschle @leanderlindahl I thought he was about to educate me on another mastodon feature I wasn't aware of - pls don't kid with me I'm gullible! It's day #3 on here!
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@hpod16 Thank you for such an enjoyable and complete presentation!
@tizianomattei thank you thank you. I saw many people with introductory posts here, so this has been forming in my head all weekend... Really wanted to try out making a long Thread too.
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@tizianomattei @oelschle @leanderlindahl I thought he was about to educate me on another mastodon feature I wasn't aware of - pls don't kid with me I'm gullible! It's day #3 on here!
@hpod16 @tizianomattei @oelschle in this context I'd say it means "like", or "favourite". But the real "upvote" would be to boost, so others can be made aware of the content.
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(6/12) I joined Twitter in 2011, right after high school. I had time to kill, and I wanted to get creative on the internet. I also started a tumblr. God I miss early 2010s tumblr. Social media was just this silly thing, no one was making it their career. Influencers weren’t a thing yet. That’s also when I coined the handle I still use today: HPOD is actually an acronym for “Hamlet Prince of Denmark”, I was a bit of a theatre nerd in those days, and I was Hamlet in my last school play.
@hpod16 oh wow, that's interesting! I'd never have guessed! Thought the H was somehow connected to Hannah.
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@hpod16 @tizianomattei @oelschle in this context I'd say it means "like", or "favourite". But the real "upvote" would be to boost, so others can be made aware of the content.
@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. -
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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 @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. -
@hpod16 @tizianomattei @oelschle in this context I'd say it means "like", or "favourite". But the real "upvote" would be to boost, so others can be made aware of the content.
@leanderlindahl
Yeah, but the word seemed to me too "corporate" to be serious... but of course IDK
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(6/12) I joined Twitter in 2011, right after high school. I had time to kill, and I wanted to get creative on the internet. I also started a tumblr. God I miss early 2010s tumblr. Social media was just this silly thing, no one was making it their career. Influencers weren’t a thing yet. That’s also when I coined the handle I still use today: HPOD is actually an acronym for “Hamlet Prince of Denmark”, I was a bit of a theatre nerd in those days, and I was Hamlet in my last school play.
@hpod16 aahhh that’s where you got your handle from
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@hpod16 oh wow, that's interesting! I'd never have guessed! Thought the H was somehow connected to Hannah.
@BrennpunktUA well it also does sound a lot like an iPod, but with H
and it's short which was handy for twitter (remember when the max was 140 characters? I used to be a wizard at shortening sentences, because i had to translate 140 character tweets from English to German) -
(9/12) 2016 was also the year of the #Brexit referendum Tr*mp’s election. It was the beginning of a new era for politics on social media. The Cambridge Analytica scandal meant that people started losing trust in these platforms, while law-makers buckled up and tightened rules on political advertising. Higher-ups started paying more attention to what the social media teams were doing, and at only 23 I found myself giving trainings on how to use Twitter to people wayyy above me.
@hpod16 that’s crazy
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@tizianomattei @oelschle @leanderlindahl I thought he was about to educate me on another mastodon feature I wasn't aware of - pls don't kid with me I'm gullible! It's day #3 on here!
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@leanderlindahl @oelschle Ahh, well I'm here very much in a personal capacity so I cannot verify my account. Not a spokesperson, just someone who works with social media
sorry to disappoint@hpod16 @leanderlindahl
Sorry. My request maybe overshoot a bit. -
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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)
