Jim Parkin @ParkinJim@social.cleverlibre.org

Boosting / Retweeting is more important than favouriting/liking

Especially early on for making connections.

Don't be a burdeny birdy liker. Be a boosty booster

Experimenting with Bookshop.org and set up a page for #GoldSF titles #Feminism #ScienceFiction #FeministScienceFiction
https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/gold-sf

@unamccormack Oh, wow. I didn't know Bookshop had a UK version (uk.bookshop.org). I have an account on bookshop.org and thought they still only shipped to the US.

Nearly 1000-Mar-2020 so you probably know this by now.

UK dashboard updates at ~ 4pm on Thur. Summarises data up to the previous Sat.
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

Travelling Tabby has a dash updated ~8pm Thurs
https://www.travellingtabby.com/uk-coronavirus-tracker/
https://twitter.com/TravellingTabby

ONS release prevalence data on Fridays. Summarised here.
https://www.travellingtabby.com/coronavirus-infection-survey-data
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases

ZOE survey updates around midday each day.
https://health-study.joinzoe.com/data

What he wanted was Cyber-Utopia. What we got was Turn-key Totalitarianism.

From 2018, about somebody else.

PLEASE OSINT RESEARCHERS IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING REMAINING TO ARCHIVE MAKE THAT LIST PUBLIC SO PEOPLE CAN HELP.

1 in 10 Mastodon accounts were created in the last week

h/t @mastodonusercount

Having been here since 2016, I can tell you there is definitely no such thing as a consensus on usage of content warnings on the fediverse. It's a decentralized network that doesn't belong to any one party, so by definition there is no single culture on it. Different corners have different expectations and customs.

Why are my feeds improving so quickly? I'm seeing #exponentialGrowth in the value of #Mastodon that is following Reed's Law as #twittermigration arrivals self-organize.

In 2001 David Reed said a network's value is driven by groups. The number of potential groups grows exponentially (2^N) as the network population increases. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%27s_law

Look for this network effect to overcome the friction of moving from the birdsite to the #Fediverse as community formation accelerates.

Another quick PSA for the newcomers:

There is no Mastodon.

As in, there is no entity out there called Mastodon that needs to "get it together" or "make things easier."

Every server is a unique collection of hardware and software operated by a unique team of (usually) volunteer humans funded by (usually) donations.

Some days will be smoother than others. We new folks have flooded the network. Cut the volunteers some slack. Better yet, offer support.

These are some of the people I've found on Mastodon and recommend following:

@Dr_D_Robertson
@ariskatzourakis
@nisreen
@aliceroberts
@jujuliagrace
@mikegalsworthy
@doctoroxford
The last two are on @mas.to
@SusanMichie
@Fascinatorfun
@chrischirp

All well worth a follow.

Let's build our network together.

Utterly amazed that my main research and personal interests are colliding all at once in this very public, very messy, very entertaining meltdown of Twitter

- Money, law, and power
- Corporate governance
- Business regulation
- Wasting time on social media

In the next year, the Fediverse is going to become a business. Specifically, in four areas:

1. Web development
2. Web-hosting
3. Account management & customer service
4. Security

Many people won't be happy about this metamorphosis, but for the long-term survival of the Fediverse, it must happen.

UK home insulation rates have collapsed after 2012 and never recovered.

@theCCCuk@twitter.com just published a letter calling on the UK government to drive energy savings in homes to help households in times of high energy prices.

🧵

https://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/letter-reducing-energy-demand-in-buildings-in-response-to-the-energy-price-crisis/