Adnan @Decad3nce@social.cleverlibre.org

There is no single site or app that is "Mastodon." This isn't like Twitter, or Facebook.

Mastodon.social isn't "Mastodon" anymore than Gmail is "email." Gmail is one very popular email server, Mastodon.social is one very popular #Mastodon server.

Same goes for mastodon.online, mstdn.social, mas.to, etc.

This seems to be tripping up a lot of new people during the #twittermigration to the #fediverse

#FediTips

I was invited to give a talk to my department about using Twitter for academic engagement.

Attaching my slides below for reference in case anyone finds them helpful:

Everyone should be able to support their families. Not just those who win the employment lottery, only to lose it to the richest man in the world. Everyone deserves the dignity of being able to provide for their family. I’m taking around the world. His wealth is an obscenity.

* the tech industry is highly stratified, globalized and hierarchical and many within it do not experience it as financially, psychologically, or physically secure.

If anything, this should demonstrate the extreme precariousness of the whole of all people if those in what are arguably some of the best working conditions in the world* can be discarded with no consequence.

One of the folks I know from Twitter said today in a group, “I just got this job two years ago…this was my first good job” — meaning a job that allowed them to support their family. And then their voice broke. I’ve been thinking about that since it happened.

That’s what Elon did to a lot of people.

I wrote a thing for The Conversation about the potential for a #TwitterMigration based on our past research. Including a little bit about #Mastodon though I have a lot more thoughts than are in this piece. :) https://theconversation.com/mass-migration-from-twitter-is-likely-to-be-an-uphill-battle-just-ask-ex-tumblr-users-193677

This academic directory
allows you to follow a discipline in bulk with a few clicks. Incredible quick start discovery tool.
🐱https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon
#Sociology
#STS Science and Technology Studies
#PoliticalScience
#Geography
#History and #Philosophy of Science
#Philosophy
#History (Google Spreadsheet)
#Philosophers and Philosophy Teachers

Bravo to @hendrikerz
🐘https://scholar.social/@hendrikerz/109281004549755949
#TwitterMigration #AcademicTwitter #AcademicMastodon #Academic
#FollowFriday #FF #fediverse #feditips

Everything ever observed - all normal matter - stars, planets, me & you, the very screen you’re looking at - makes up <5% of the universe.

The other 95% is a combination of “dark matter” & “dark energy.” Think of it as a big question mark.

That means we still have so much to discover ✨
#space #science

reasons mastodon's "viral dampening effect" is a good thing:

👉🏻 no "main character of the day"
👉🏻 no free text searching for people to get angry at (and harrass)
👉🏻 doomscrolling is *actually bad for you* and not a thing we should be trying to replicate
👉🏻 birdsite's virality is heavily driven by actual paid advertising and bots. You think that "Explore" tab gets its content organically? really? That's not making connections between people, it's about driving sales.

Mastodon is not, and should not be, a 1:1 replacement for Twitter. But it *can* be a new place for you to make valuable connections with other human beings. #twitter #twittermigration

Ok, Mastadon is officially a lot more awesome than I had realised. There's a federated server for everyone who's really into bitcoin, and, yes, it is full of people who are as awful as you can imagine. But, with one click, you can block the entire domain! 12.8k thousand crypto weirdos filtered out in a click. Amazing.

I think of the faces and places I would have never accessed had it not been for the fact that I opened a Twitter account when I was 17. I think we are losing one of the few platforms where people were largely accessible to people and info outside their direct circles, and Mastodon does not substitute this part.

I think of the great work that had been done by the META, human rights, and accessibility teams. Industry-wide standard setters gone on a whim.

The people behind the Intercept remain huge big mad that I wrote this. They're now making shit up about me and trashing this article. What they have *not* done is corrected any of the errors in the piece. I'm used to reporting pieces people dislike. I'm used to people attacking my reporting. But this is above and beyond. Never seen anything to this level. https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/bullshit-reporting-the-intercepts-story-about-government-policing-disinfo-is-absolute-garbage/

Elon fired the entire accessibility engineering team from Twitter https://twitter.com/gerardkcohen/status/1588584459779321857

Twitter sued for Mass Layoffs without enough notice

https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/technology/twitter-sued-for-mass-layoffs-by-musk-without-enough-notice

If the tent you sleep in is along Johnson Creek in #Portland, it’s supposed to rise 8 feet over the next couple of days. Move higher! #unhoused

Mastodon reminds me of why I used to like social media back in my early blogging days on the ScienceBlogs network.

Forums weren't intended to inspire outrage or spread disinformation.

We jumped in because we were genuinely excited to share things we were passionate about, build community & share ideas.

I'm super excited that, so far, #Mastodon has a similar feel of goodwill & enthusiasm. #TwitterMigration