@BrennpunktUA but I like the limitations.
I like character limits for the same reason I like Sonnets in Poetry.
There's only one strict way to write a sonnet, and yet hundreds of thousands have been written, one more creative than the next.
Maybe 140 characters was too little, but something about being given a limit makes me want to push it. Get the most out of the few characters I have.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day...?

@superuserdo
"To be or not to be, that is the question, whether 'tis nobler
in the mind to suffer
the slings and arrows
of outrageous fortune
or to take arms against
a sea of struggles
and by opposing
- end them"

Or something like that... I should really look it up again.

@lexinova @leanderlindahl @oelschle
I'll take it, thank youuuuu

@BrennpunktUA yes! First with the European Youth Parliament.
I went to a conference in Feb 2013 and made plenty of friends who were later protesting on Maidan Square. Ivano Frankivsk. I went back in 2014 and 2015, for EYP sessions that were actually Belarusian conferences, but since EYP was banned in Belarus, they often held their sessions in Lviv. And then During my master I went for a wedding and to visit a friend in Kyiv. Oh, and to the European Lesbian Conference in 2019, that was wild...

@tizianomattei @oelschle @leanderlindahl
Thanks, I'm adding this to my "knowledge about the fediverse" collection

@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).

@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...

@zotheca @jill @oelschle
Sorry if it appears misleading! My profile also states I'm here in personal capacity
so, just a person who works for the EU, in no way to I speak for them
(That's what spokespeople do, that's not what I am)

@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)

@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.

@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.

@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!

@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

@zotheca @oelschle well, eupolicy.social isn't an official instance run by EU Institutions, but rather for all kinds of people in the Brussels bubble

@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

@oelschle Ummm, hi! How do I do that?

(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

(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?

(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...

(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.