(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 @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
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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.
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(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.
