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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
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.
Argh, how did I miss @ProPublica and @Volksverpetzer? I will have to revisit this…
@mho Spannend, dass die erfolgreichsten eine Instanz haben. Was bedeutet das nun? @gavinkarlmeier
@droidboy @mho @gavinkarlmeier
Nichts. Die Referenzgruppe ist zu klein: 5 weltweit bei geschätzt 10 Millionen + Accounts ist sicherlich keine Stichprobe, die über zufällige Coinzidenzen hinaus geht.
@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. It's not bloated with ads and trackers as well which suits to the fediverse demography quite well.
@mho really interesting data, thanks very much!
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