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Martin Holland
@mho.social.heise.de.ap.brid.gy
Leitender Redakteur im Newsroom von @heiseonline

Dort schreibe ich über die #IT, vor allem auch zu gesellschaftlichen Folgen von #Internet, #SocialMedia, #KI & Co […]

[bridged from https://social.heise.de/@mho on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
The new overview over followers from big #media accounts in the #fediverse:

@tazgetroete &
@tagesschau are big on #friendica, #hubzilla seems very German.

@ProPublica & @arstechnica are big on #hometown, but the latter is the largest almost everywhere […]

[Original post on social.heise.de]
December 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The five largest verified accounts of #news organisations in the #fediverse are:
@arstechnica
@mediapart
@tazgetroete
@heiseonline
@tagesschau

Interested in where the followers are? Have a look 👇🏼

And find a larger table over at:
https://fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview.html
December 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
My post traveling through the #fediverse got another push over the weekend (thx @pallenberg), motivating me to have another look. And surprise: After adding the software of multiple instances, #sharkey came in before #Bluesky. 🥳
December 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Now with corrected colors! Thanks to all who shared it wide, it got very far!

- it was shared far more often than last time
- everyone is so nice
- #bluesky was not more popular than last time, but it's still first
- the diversity is great, but the range of […]

[Original post on social.heise.de]
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
@fediverse

So here is a first analysys of shares and favs by #software 👇🏼

There are some missing, maybe because my instance doesn't know about them (I'm getting the number via API), and #bluesky has some more (but not much). Sadly I tagged #lemmy/#Piefed […]

[Original post on social.heise.de]
November 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
How far will it go this time?
This post from #mastodon can reach the whole #fediverse, #bluesky & more.
That's #sharkey, #misskey, #pixelfed, #mbin, #lemmy, #friendica, #hometown, #Akkoma…

If you see it, please share it.

#socialmedia !fediverse@piefed.social
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Oh man, wie kann man denn so humorbefreit sein? Ich musste bei der "liebenswerten US-Spieleschmiede" so laut lachen 😅 […]

[Original post on social.heise.de]
September 30, 2025 at 8:11 AM
September 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Das #gpt5 keine Karten zeichnen kann, ist übrigens Absicht.
Jetzt wisst ihr Bescheid. 👇🏼

#chatgpt #openai #samaltman #saschalobo #spiegelonline
August 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
To put this in perspective:
If we add #traffic from @Mastodon, #bluesky, @Flipboard & #threads it brings more or less as much as #facebook (and with fewer ups and downs). Which is not little. But that's mainly thanks to #flipboard, as you can see.

#twittermigration #news #socialmedia
July 22, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Haven't posted these in a while, but there's not much change:
Since @heiseonline has left #x/#Twitter, we've seen a bit more #traffic from #mastodon; #bluesky is also growing a bit. #threads lags.

There was an error in our numbers of #flipboard, after correction, it's way bigger.
July 22, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Well, now it's going out of hands: Remember how the flag emojis disappeared from my website and I tried to find an explanation?
Now they're gone from #bluesky on the web for me. Anyone else seeing this? 👇🏼
June 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Now, that the bug is solved and it's no longer a problem if the number of followers (or following) of @MediaOnMastodon is divisible by 8, it's a good time to get to 400, right?

Have a look, maybe I missed another account by a media organization on #mastodon […]

[Original post on social.heise.de]
May 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
You know, how @Flipboard shows for federated accounts only the total follower numbers from their app?
Well, there is a way, to find the number of followers from the #fediverse, but it's only accessible for federated accounts.
Luckily I can access the one from […]

[Original post on social.heise.de]
May 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
BTW The goal is still, to reach the traffic we had in 2023 😯

#socialmedia #mastodon #fediverse #twittermigration #mastodonmigration
March 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Want to see something interesting?
This graph shows the traffic to @heiseonline via our posts on #mastodon by the hour in February in this & last year. See the spike in the morning? That's the automated posts with the most shared links. Seems like we need another one in the evening 😉
March 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Two weeks later, time for a little update: As a #traffic source, #threads hasn't remained as big as #mastodon for @heiseonline, but it constantly beats #bluesky now. #x (where we stopped posting) is behind. But what's interesting 👇🏻

#socialmedia #fediverse #mastodonmigration
February 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Here you can see, that (other than #x) the new peak from #threads is not from one (or two articles) but that there definitely was a shift. It seems like Threads is on par with #mastodon, but for that we'll have to see.

#socialmedia

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February 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
If we take the three #twitteralternatives together, they even beat the original from way back…

(Oh, and yes, there is also a peak from #x in there, but that's only from one viral article.)

#socialmedia
February 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Last week here at @heiseonline we had two #microblogging services that brought as much #traffic as #x brought, before we stopped posting there: Still don't know why, but #threads even beat #mastodon. #bluesky only third this time.

#socialmedia #twittermigration #twitter
February 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
OK, what's happening here? #threads is going through the roof and has seemingly overtaken #bluesky, plus maybe even #mastodon (– regarding traffic to @heiseonline).
Of course, we're now posting automatically, but only since yesterday, the growth began days […]

[Original post on social.heise.de]
February 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
We knew I had to do it 😉
Yesterday, I posted a picture from a protest in #hannover, and it went wildly viral here on #mastodon. ✊🏼
But on #bluesky it was even crazier! It's the first (big) post I've seen from Mastodon, that was more popular on another […]

[Original post on social.heise.de]
January 31, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Two major french newspapers are leaving #x. 👏🏼

#socialmedia #exodus #exit #twittermigration #elonmusk #twitter
January 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Well, this is interesting: For two weeks now, #mastodon is bringing noticeably more traffic to @heiseonline. #bluesky is also growing again, and even #threads bringing in more than ever before.
The #twitteralternatives are reaching new heights.
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#socialmedia #fediverse
January 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM