I’m unsure where this Mastodon thing is going and I do consider alternatives, but so far none of the other would-be replacements for Twitter — #Bluesky, #Threads — appear to have a proper tablet (#iPad) optimized app (hell, #Instagram couldn’t be arsed ever). #Mastodon, otoh has several delightful ones ( @MonaApp@tootapp@ivory etc.). What to do?
For anyone interested, #AllThingsTech has our own Discord server for those that are looking to hang out and chat outside of Mastodon.
We feel that there are often times that longer, more in-depth conversations are wanted/needed and Discord is a great place to have those conversations.
It's a great place to give us feedback about our server to help make it a better place.
This excellent advice to organizations on how to migrate off X/Twitter comes from one of the real fediverse pioneers. Kit's Texas Observer was one of the first news organizations to establish a Mastodon instance, and has been a beacon for many others. The open social web owes a lot to Kit O'Connell and the Texas Observer! Thank you Kit!
Culled about 400 follows of accounts that haven’t been active in 90 days or more, including some accounts from folks I followed on the other place who set up accounts here during the first #MastodonMigration but haven’t been active since.
I’d been holding onto in hopes that they’d eventually make the shift but that hasn’t happened and frankly I’m finding new and interesting accounts to follow here every day, so…
#Threads will come to the #EU next week! Will it start to federate at the same time? That would be a fitting end for this year, wouldn't it?
It began with #Mastodon on top of the alternatives for #Twitter. The it got a bit (!) quieter around here. Threads was announced and had a big start only to lose momentum to #Bluesky. If Threads now becomes a part of the #fediverse, it will be a whole new ball game. Who would still need Bluesky - and Twitter?
A better technical solution (without Google) is in the works. So why not prepare one for international media as well?
Can you point me to verified (!) accounts on Mastodon or the #Fediverse from newspapers/magazines/media etc.? Please, not individual journalists, that's a separate table. And where should I collect it (GoogleDocs, Github)?
Update #3: And it broke again 🧐 I have another idea and meanwhile a static copy. No more updates for this post 😉
Hey #Mastodon & #Fediverse, look what I build: It's an updated table of @tchambers list of journalists in here, that stays up-to-date with data on #Followers and when they were last active:
Zu den Accounts gibt es darin Angaben zur Followerzahl, zur Durchsuchbarkeit, zur Aktivität und mehr. Die Accounts selbst hab ich von der tollen Auflistung von @Sebastian, als Nächstes sollen sie automatisch einfließen.
Sometimes I think Mastodon folks discount our presence in a self defeating kind of way as "small" simply because BlueSky and Threads are run by 'big people' and so are assumed to be 'big'. The reality is all three "Twitter alternatives" are quite similar as far as activity. Bluesky and Mastodon are very similar in total numbers. Threads I think is a bit more of a mirage.
Here are some recent numbers, MDAU is Million Daily Active Users:
Bluesky : ~0.5-1.0 MDAU and 2 Million Total
Mastodon: ~1.2-1.5M DAU and 8-14 Million Total
Threads: ~10 MDAU and 100 Million Total
(Note the images are at different time periods so trends look different if anyone has some good resources for this let me know)
I'll do it again in #english, maybe it is of interest for others too:
@heiseonline is on of the biggest official accounts on #Mastodon by a german media organization. It's now a year old and I had a look into the ~62k followers. Turns out, that federation in the #fediverse seems to work: Less than a fourth are from mastodon.social, the rest are on more than 1900 different instances.
If you take the creation date of the accounts following @heiseonline, there is a clear peak in the 4th quarter of 2022 (#TwitterTakeover), since then, there is visible stability: More than 5000 follower where created in each quarter.
If you just take the months and limit them to 2022 and 2023, you see the big peak in November (roughly a third was created then) and the slowdon in summer 2023.
OK, das ist ziemlich cool: Danke @_max für die Daten!
Die rund 62.000 Follower von @heiseonline verteilen sich ganz schön übers #Fediverse. Mit Abstand am größten natürlich mastodon.social, aber danach wird's doch recht vielfältig. Insgesamt über 1900 Instanzen kommen da zusammen. Die #Föderation funktioniert, würd ich sagen. Auch wenn die Dominanz schon groß ist.
Spannend auch, wann die Accounts alle so eingerichtet wurden. Die allermeisten stammen aus dem 4. Quartal 2022 (#ElonMusk übernimmt #Twitter).
Einen ersten Peak gibt es aber schon im 2. Quartal (#Musk kündigt #Twitterübernahme an) - vorher läuft übrigens "unter ferner liefen", zumindest bei den Followern von @heiseonline.
Danach ist es ziemlich stabil geblieben: Aus den drei kompletten Quartalen kamen jeweils über 5000 Accounts dazu).
Aktuell sind wir ja etwas blind, wenn es um den Traffic auf @heiseonline geht, der von #Mastodon kommt. Aber es gibt zumindest Indizien:
Der von mir gestern zu China gepostete Link hat fast zehnmal so viele Besuche aus unbekannter Quelle bekommen, wie sichtbar über Mastodon – und gleichzeitig fast keine anderen mehr. Wenn auch nur die Hälfte davon von Mastodon kommt, wäre #Twitter als Trafficquelle längst überholt.
Feedback is extremely welcome. This is a loving document, it can only be honed and get better with loving input from other users. What are your best tips for #creators?
@AimeeMaroux #AmWriting is particularly good for finding other writers, as is #Bookstodon and #WritersCoffeeClub. I'm in a different niche, so I follow a bunch of scifi and space-related hashtags. I follow tags I see in posts on a whim. I've built up quite a collection over time of tags that are relevant to my interests and the potential audience for my book (assuming I ever finish it 😂). #MastodonMigration#FediTips#NewHere#WritersofMastodon