4 years and 1 month after I first set foot in the majestic Nieuwenhofklooster as an undergraduate student and ventured into the wild world of academia, I graduated!
I have enjoyed what is probably one of the most privileged programmes for young curious students - I have learned, hustled, cried, thrived, and after many many long nights and online only education have finally made it. Cheers!
📚 Full BA Thesis: https://thilobuchholz.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Capstone-BuchholzThilo-Public.pdf
📜 Synopsis: https://thilobuchholz.de/2021/09/ba-thesis-european-youth-parliament/
🖼️ photos by @phinshap
It's time to #DeleteWhatsApp - but how do you explain your friends & family in short and simple terms what the alternatives are besides running to Telegram or Signal? 🤔
In light of the absence of good summaries I've written an introduction to this much debated topic - hope you find it useful! Please share it if you want to 😊
web: https://thilobuchholz.de/2021/02/3-types-of-messengers-simply-explained/
That went faster than expected! After one weekend of learning and being curious about this new protocol, I just published my first #Gemini entry and it felt really cool! 😊
It feels kind of like what I always desired since I first got into the whole confusing world of HTML, CSS, JS etc. and realised how complicated web design actually is.
Feedback very welcome! ☺️
You can find it here: gemini://gemlog.blue/users/yellow/1612715290.gmi
🌐 : https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gemlog.blue/users/yellow/1612715290.gmi
Research on Instant Messaging
Hi #fediverse!
I want to identify and properly connect the factors relevant to the choice of users in instant #messenger services. So I initiated my first repository on @codeberg: An #openknowledge project summarising my research so far which is waiting for criticism and contributions! 😊
🔗 https://codeberg.org/thilobuchholz/imfactors
🔶 ... Examples for #IM in focus: #WhatsApp #Telegram #Signal #XMPP #Matrix #Threema #Briar #Tox #Wire #Jami
Introducing Threema Libre for Android!
🚫 No Google services to begin with
📖 All components are open source
📲 Exclusively available via @fdroidorg
„Mit Flügeln über die Autobahn“ war Sophie Fichtner unterwegs, um über den Ausbau der Windenergie zu schreiben: Schwertransporte, Genehmigungswahnsinn und horrende Umwege durch marode Infrastruktur.
„Das ist nicht wie bei DHL, die ganze Zeit nur hin und zurück, laden, abladen. Bei einem 80-Meter-Blatt kann immer etwas passieren,“ zitiert sie einen Schwertransport-Fahrer.
Zum Lesen und Anhören: https://taz.de/Ausbau-der-Windenergie/!5860734;moby/ @tazgetroete
Im #tazVorgelesen -Podcast vorgelesen von taz-Leserin Sibyll.
Ab heute trötet auch die Universität Mannheim auf #Mastodon. Ein herzliches Hallo an alle. 👋 Aus dem Mannheimer Schloss halten wir alle Interessierten auf dem Laufendem über Neuigkeiten zu Studium, Lehre und Forschung. 🏰 👨🎓 👩🎓
#neuhier #tröt #universityofmannheim #unima #Fediverse @lfdi
From supporting people affected by #covid19 to helping those fleeing the war in #Ukraine, #CivilSociety plays a crucial role in upholding people’s #FundamentalRights & supporting the #RuleOfLaw.
But challenges remain.
Want to know more?
See:
https://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2022/civic-space-2022-update
Blockchain-powered carbon offset company Land Life starts 35,000-acre forest fire in Spain
July 20, 2022
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=blockchain-powered-carbon-offset-company-land-life-starts-35000-acre-forest-fire
An alle jungen Leute zwischen 16 und 26 in #Heidelberg und #Tübingen: Wir suchen Dich für den Kandidat-O-Mat zu den OB-#Wahlen. Mach mit bei unseren Redaktionsworkshops Ende Juli.
Weitere Infos & Anmeldung:
https://www.lpb-heidelberg.de/ob-wahl-heidelberg-2022
https://www.lpb-tuebingen.de/oberbuergermeisterinnen-wahl-tuebingen-2022
Während ich im Zug sitz, bekomme ich eine textlose E-Mail "Mit freundlichen Grüßen" und einer beigefügten PDF, die mich unter Zitat sämtlicher Rechtsvorschriften auffordert am nächsten Tag in der Agentur für Arbeit zu erscheinen, aber zacki!
Wenn ich nicht kann, soll ich doch rechtzeitig ein Formular ausfüllen und per Briefpost zurückschicken 🤡 ? Auf meine E-Mail-Antwort 15 min später kam natürlich keine Reaktion...
Arbeitslos gemeldet sein in Deutschland, absolut niemandem zu empfehlen 😵
Eine Brezel sagt mehr als tausend Worte. Danke an alle, die im Alltag mit dem #Fahrrad unterwegs sind. Schaut vom 30. Mai bis 3. Juni bei eurem Bäcker vorbei und holt euch eine gratis #PendlerBrezel 🥨 zum Frühstück.
wenn auf eurem familienfest 25% der leute einen knopf im ohr haben ist das übrigens ein guter indicator dafür dass franziska giffey gleich an euch vorbeilaufen wird
(toot mit 1 tag verspätung abgesetzt)
#b0105
According to fedidb.org, there are 39 #hometown servers which are home to 3.9k users who wrote 2.6M messages.
Mastodon is used by 3.3K servers, home to 3.17M users who wrote 485.7M messages.
If one does some really simple math: hometown has 67.5K messages per server, or 714 per user.
Mastodon meanwhile has ~145.5k messages per server but only 152 messages per user.
So how come hometown users write so much more?
Hometown is 99% the same as Mastodon. The main difference? Hometown allows posting local-only, meaning messages do not leave the instance and are only visible to those on the instance.
Here is a theory: servers focused on a specific community which in addition allow local-only posting create much more engagement. Even when, or specifically because, these messages are not visible in the larger network.
The numbers above are really back-of-the-envelope so there are caveats. There might also be other factors at play, such as self-selection. Talkative and community oriented-folks gravitate towards hometown? People join large mastodon servers and quickly leave?
Meanwhile, Mastodon has resisted local-only posting and in current official apps even remove the local timeline. This is (maybe??) good for network growth and large generic servers but is it good for communities? Is this really an alternative?
~ treaty ciao, treaty ciao, treaty ciao ciao ciao ~
From 2017-2021 I studied Liberal Arts & Sciences at Maastricht University (UCM) where I focused on European Politics, EU Law, and Data Science.
topics that keep me busy:
- empowering youth participation
- advancing European democracy
- achieve world peace and save the planet
also am (or have been) at home in #JEF, #BDKJ, and the Green Youth movement across Europe :)
discover more about me on my blog!