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2025-12-02 21:29:11

mho@social.heise.de

Edit: I missed some and will correct it later.

Five of the largest verified accounts of #news organizations 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

2025-12-02 21:31:40

Martin Holland

mho@social.heise.de

Three are from germany, they have an overlap of roughly 30k followers. But the rest not so much, for example just a couple of hundred between the french and the german ones.

And did you see? Three of the five are on their own instance, having much more control about their presence in the #Fediverse.

#SocialMedia #Media #Mastodon

2025-12-02 21:42:37

The Nexus of Privacy

thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange

@mho really interesting data, thanks very much! FYI @ricci @thisismissem this is an interesting counterpart to the discussion we were having at https://neuromatch.social/@jdp23/115648620785745566

2025-12-02 22:31:36

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@The Nexus of Privacy Unfortunately, I can't join that discussion for some reason.

Just so much, @Emelia 👸🏻: Most of my Fediverse data and identities are anything but locked to any instance. All my Hubzilla and (streams) channels are nomadic and cloned across two fully independent servers each. I could make more clones, I could declare any clone the new main instance, and no matter which server goes offline, my channels will carry on.

Each of these servers corresponds not to an ATmosphere PDS and not to a full ATmosphere PDS/relay/AppView stack either, but to a Mastodon server, only that these servers use something else than ActivityPub as their primary protocol and ActivityPub only as an optional extra protocol. However, with the creation of Forte in August, 2024, this technology was first implemented entirely with ActivityPub.

This technology is neither new nor experimental; in fact, it has been around for longer than Mastodon, much less Bluesky: It was conceived in 2011 and first implemented on a precursor of Hubzilla in mid-2012.

CC: @Martin Holland @Rob Ricci

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #PortableIdentity #NomadicIdentity

2025-12-02 23:43:06

Jens Scholz ⍟

jensscholz@mastodon.social

@mho the large overlap of the followers for three German news profiles is not that surprising. Tagesschau ist basically the german BBC News and the oldest news channel of public television (since 1952), heise is the biggest IT related news channel and taz is the biggest left leaning newspaper with a great digital expertise and no paywall. All three are not bloated with ads and trackers as well which suits to the fediverse demography quite well.

2025-12-03 08:51:27

Droid Boy :coolified:

droidboy@social.cologne

@mho Spannend, dass die erfolgreichsten eine Instanz haben. Was bedeutet das nun? @gavinkarlmeier

2025-12-03 09:24:28

Martin Holland

mho@social.heise.de

Argh, how did I miss @ProPublica and @Volksverpetzer? I will have to revisit this…