Eugen RochkoDuring the #Eunomia meeting, I was asked, who are the most influential accounts on Mastodon? I know what Mastodon thinks about popularity contests, so don't get me wrong, I am not going to publish what I find, but I am thinking of methodologies for determining who in this network has influence.
I didn't say "influencer". I didn't talk about Instagram users pushing sponsored products. I didn't talk about users who put "thoughtleader" into their bio as if that would make it true.
Gadfly (-booq-)@Gargron The question's a bad one, IMO.
It tries to collapses "influential" into one measurement, which is, like, totally BS.
@Gargron
Like is your question "people know their opinions and react to them and that drives conversation?" Then you're pretty high up there. Most people have SOME take, if you take an opinion.
But if your asking after, like, an Ender's Game style "their phrases and opinions percolate through the community" -- with all due respect, I don't think you've done much of that. Whoever came up with the term "hornt", tho..? DesPITE me (and you, and, like, everyone) not knowing their name!
@Gargron Alternatively, maybe you want "they cause people to take certain actions" -- heck, there's a 60+% chance /I/ hit that! Unless someone I didn't see was also constantly mouthing on about it like me, I singlehandedly caused both Pleroma main and at least one Mastodon fork to implement BBCode parsing!