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Martin Holland Aug 2, 2023

Ever since writing about #Firefish (at that time still #Calckey) on @[email protected] account on the main instance firefish.social (earlier calckey.social) is super slow or completely unusable if not most of the time at least many times. Is the load really that big and do other instances work better and more reliable? Or better: Should I move my account? If yes, where to?

I hope, nobody understands this as a complaint, because it honestly isn't meant as such. It's just an observation and I would like to know, if I'm witnessing growing pains of #firefish or firefish.social. Maybe moving would even help the instance? I know, the team is working hard and wouldn't want to add any stress. I still like #firefish very much and would like to use it more.

Martin Holland Jul 30, 2023

I (on #Android) use @elk for scrolling through #Mastodon, because it's easiest to switch #accounts when I want to #boost.

But I would like it very much, if one or multiple apps would add an option like "Boost as .." where I could decide during scrolling with which account to boost while not losing my position in the timeline.

Do others want that? What do you think, @trunksapp, @phanpy, @tooot?

Edit: @apps already supports that.

Edit: @SubwayTooter, @megalodon & @moshidon also support it

Martin Holland Jul 30, 2023

JT Jul 19, 2023

Libraries are great. Support your library.

#Gaming #Nintendo #GamerDad

Martin Holland Jul 30, 2023

Let’s Correct the Record on the Media’s Handling of the #Clinton #Email Story - #NiemanReports

Why are marquee news outlets still unwilling to grapple with their role in the #2016election?

"Here’s what The Times and other major news outlets should have done instead: Demand to see the entire trove of documents before reporting on any of them. That would have been the only way to wrestle control of the timeline from outside actors determined to use #mainstream #media to affect the election. It’s not a radical move. Journalists often do that, for instance, when dealing with investigations. We don’t allow the source to dictate publication terms, even indirectly, especially if we know they are purposefully withholding pertinent information and #context."

#FBI #Wikileaks #DonaldTrump #HillaryClinton #Journalism

https://niemanreports.org/articles/clinton-emails-new-york-times/

I wrote about this five years ago (in German):

#MissingLink: Wie Russen einmal erfolgreich #Cyberwar führten

Donald Trump wurde auch dank russischer Hilfe zum US-Präsidenten gewählt. Dafür gibt es inzwischen genug Indizien. Wichtig ist es nun, daraus Lehren zu ziehen.

https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Missing-Link-Wie-Russen-einmal-erfolgreich-Cyberwar-fuehrten-4198408.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege

Let’s Correct the Record on the Media’s Handling of the Clinton Email Story | Nieman Reports

Why are marquee news outlets still unwilling to grapple with their role in the 2016 election?

Nieman Reports

Martin Holland Jul 28, 2023

jinjiyanazadi Jul 28, 2023

Morgen (Samstag, 29. Juli) findet in Hannover vor der Klinik, in der Naeiri mutmaßlich behandelt wurde, eine Demo statt.

Wann: 14 bis 16 Uhr

Wo: INI Hannover – International Neuroscience Institute | Rudolf-Pichlmayr-Str. 4

#wo_ist_naeiri #Iran #Azadi #IranRevolution #jinjiyanazadi #WomenLifeFreedom #mahsaamini #FrauenLebenFreiheit #IRGCTerrorists #naeiri #hannover

#زن_زندگی_آزادی
#ژن_ژیان_ئازادی

Martin Holland Jul 28, 2023

#Twitter’s turn to #X marks the spot for EU trademark trouble – #POLITICO

#ElonMusk’s attempt to rebrand the #SocialMedia giant could run afoul of intellectual property rights.

"Failing to secure the right to use X risks legal action that could see Musk ordered not to use the name or symbol in certain circumstances, or at all, or even to face damages claims for infringing on another company's established #trademark."

#TwitterTakeover #SocialMedia #XCorp

https://www.politico.eu/article/twitter-x-trademark-regulations-logo-european-union-elon-musk/

Twitter’s turn to X marks the spot for EU trademark trouble

Elon Musk’s attempt to rebrand the social media giant could run afoul of intellectual property rights.

POLITICO

Martin Holland Jul 17, 2023

Twitter's main competitor #Threads is now a little more than a week old, and I had already indicated that some of the initial growth was definitely visible in our numbers. That's why I have prepared another update (this is the translation of https://social.heise.de@mho/110727882695234961):

I wasn't the only one to notice, that it got noticeably quieter on #Twitter after the introduction of #Threads (with the exception of Europe, yet it was noticeable here too).

For a few days, in our analytics, it looked like the visits from #Twitter would decrease so much, that #Mastodon could finally come out clearly in front. But quickly the effect has completely disappeared again: #Twitter as a whole is ahead of #Mastodon again. If you take out the effects I described earlier, they again remain on par.

Also, I still see that visits from #Mastodon's have decreased if you add up all our accounts on social.heise.de: So the end of automatic retweets (https://social.heise.de/@heiseonline/110371699219107096) has hurt us overall, @heiseautos, @heisec, @macandi & Co. reach significantly fewer people on their own.

That's a shame, given how it was before. But I can't say, that it's surprising.

Also, it is significant that of the 20 best performing articles on #Mastodon, 8 (!) were published in November and December, 5 in January/February and 6 in March/April: only one article published after April 4 made it into the top 20. The heyday of the recent #MastodonMigration was a while ago.

Things look a bit better when it comes to engagement: 6 of the 20 articles with the most boosts and favs appeared after April 1.

All in all, a rather mixed picture: #Mastodon obviously can't benefit much from the situation on #Twitter. But it also may be, that the recent growth of the #Fediverse may simply be taking place elsewhere and to a much lesser extent in the German-speaking world.

Of course, my numbers are only limited and @heiseonline has a special target group. But as long as there are no better numbers, I will keep an eye on it.

Show thread

Martin Holland Jun 23, 2023

Here the video:
https://twitter.com/GloOouD/status/1672312501050961920

Cloooud |🇺🇦 on X

Prigozhin declared war on the RF Armed Forces. «the evil that the military leadership of Russia bears must be stopped ... those who destroyed hundreds of Russian soldiers will be punished, they will not resist anyone, including any aircraft and roadblocks ...»

Twitter

Martin Holland Jun 23, 2023

There is a video making the rounds, in which the boss of the russian mercenary group Wagner, Yevgeny #Prigozhin, shows a destroyed camp and states, that it was attacked by a russian missile.

Not much later, he has now basically just declared war on the Russian Ministry of Defense. Seems like a major escalation in a fight, that's been going on for quite some time. And it sounds like a #coup, at least a partial one.

Here is a translation by https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1672314259907158028

"PMC #Wagner Commanders’ Council made a decision: the evil brought by the military leadership of the country must be stopped.

They neglect the lives of soldiers. They forgot the word “justice”, and we will bring it back.

Those, who destroyed today our guys, who destroyed tens, tens of thousands of lives of Russian #soldiers will be punished.

I’m asking: no one resist. Everyone who will try to resist, we will consider them a danger and destroy them immediately, including any checkpoints on our way. And any aviation that we see above our heads.

I’m asking everyone to remain calm, do not succumb to provocations, and remain in their houses. Ideally, those along our way, do not go outside.

After we finished what we started, we will return to the frontline to protect our motherland.

Presidential authority, Government, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Rosgvardia, and other departments will continue operating as before.

We will deal with those who destroy Russian soldiers. And we will return to the frontline.

Justice in the Army will be restored. And after this, justice for the whole of Russia."

#UkraineWar #Russia #Putin #Ukraine

Dmitri on X

Full message of Prigozhi "declaring war on the Russian Ministry of Defence: "PMC Wagner Commanders’ Council made a decision: the evil brought by the military leadership of the country must be stopped. They neglect the lives of soldiers. They forgot the word “justice”, and we…

Twitter

Martin Holland May 25, 2023

For weeks at least as many people have been coming to heise.de via our account @heiseonline on #Mastodon as via our account on #Twitter.

I have said this multiple times already, but this was in part based on an assumption, now I have another clear sign supporting this. That's because our account in Twitter was largely silent since Tuesday (no, it was probably our fault and not that of #ElonMusk). But that means, that no one came to our current articles via our own posts own #Twitter and instead only via others who shared them. The numbers dropped significantly and no matter how I look, what's left is about 30% of our normal numbers. Coincidentally, we already had such an outage on an earlier Wednesday with an identical result.

So if I want to compare how many visitors come only (!) via our accounts on #Mastodon and #Twitter, I have to subtract 30% from the sum of all visits via Twitter.

The following picture emerges (mind you, these are the visits only via @heiseonline and the Twitter account to messages in our newsticker; our brands @heisec etc. are not included): Visits via both our accounts run almost parallel and have been for months. This confirms once more what I have been writing in the past.

Absolute numbers remain quite low, though. But that's another story.

This Thread in German:
https://social.heise.de/@mho/110429490556083418

Martin Holland (@[email protected])

Über unseren Account @heiseonline auf #Mastodon kommen seit Wochen mindestens so viele Leute auf heise.de, wie über unseren Account auf #Twitter. Das hab ich ja schon ein paar mal erläutert, aber da war ein wichtiger Teil geschätzt. Jetzt habe ich eine neue Zahl, die diese Annahme klar untermauert. Und zwar war unser Account auf Twitter seit Dienstag und bis vorhin weitgehend verstummt (nein, es war wohl unsere Schuld und nicht die von #ElonMusk). #TwitterTakeover (Thread 🧵 1/3)

Heise Medien on Mastodon

Personal account on #Mastodon:	https://hannover.town/@fingolas
Work account on #Mastodon:	https://social.heise.de/@mho