ZingerLearns @ZingerLearns@social.cleverlibre.org

What’s necessary to make Mastodon a real alternative online home? How do we support building inclusive space here while staunchly helping fight for public space that’s already been built elsewhere on the Web? Can the affordances of this platform adequately support the work of disabled, queer, BIPOC communities? https://techpolicy.press/the-whiteness-of-mastodon/

Yet another powerful woman clearly forced out because she threatened the status quo. Lemme guess, they didn’t like the color of her lipstick when she gave orders?

#academia #sexism

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/education/2022/11/28/ohio-state-president-kristina-johnson-to-resign/69646772007/

"Gynecology as a medical specialty was masculinized 800 yrs ago & still adheres to patriarchal values."

"Men traditionally regard the female body as an object for producing babies or satisfying men's sexual desires."

Railroad companies and union workers are at an impasse.

The workers want at least 4 paid sick days.

The railroads want to give them none.

Biden says, to avoid a strike, Congress should pass legislation giving the railroad companies exactly what they want.

Experimenting with Google Sheets timeline tool. Figured out that, if I format a Form to use the same headers as the timeline feature, we could have a class collaborate on a timeline with each student sharing about a specific event or era. The end result would be a timeline that shows the relationships between the events.

If you're hearing a lot about the fediverse these days, you should know: Mastodon is not the whole fediverse and the fediverse is not simply a Twitter replacement. The fediverse is an entire ecosystem, built on something called ActivityPub. Learn more: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/leaving-twitters-walled-garden

Reblog if you think everywhere should be a safe place for the #LGBTQ community 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

If you are an #ally I want to follow you.

Weird how mental illness hardly shoots anyone in Canada.

Normalize Black people coming to this app being safe to speak their minds. What we bring up might abut internal discomfort and biases that you might hold. That is not the minoritized person’s responsibility, though, to educate you, coddle you, to do the work for you. It is your responsibility to not create yet another space where Black people are marginalized or silenced.
I’ve been calculated about bringing this up and now is the time.💖✊🏽
#Black #BlackPride #Minoritized #Responsibility #unity

Please don't recommend "just run your own server".

It's not a feasible thing to do for 99.99% of people and besides it doesn't solve moderation issues; it only subtly shifts moderation work around.

There are no technological solutions for social problems. Never have been, never will be.

Someone always has to do the hard work.

Okay, that's multiple "journalists" from "journalism instances" asking me questions about mastodon and moderation.

Before you send me anything, can you answer these riddles 3?

1) how well have you vetted your instance admin?
1) who is funding your instance?
2) who are your moderators?

None of you have been here more than a few days, and so far every thinkpiece I've seen about masto and moderation so far is less than surface level shit.

You are trying to run when you haven't got legs yet.

Fellow educators, please share/boost this form to connect K12Librarian folx and facilitate their migration from Twitter to Mastodon:

#K12Librarian? Fill out this form so others can find you:
https://go.mgpd.org/joinK12Librarian

@edutooters

More about it here: https://www.mguhlin.org/2022/11/spread-word-to-k12librarian-folks.html

@joinmastodon@twitter.com 2. The primary gripe with Mastodon is that it is confusing.

But it really isn't.

It's a decentralized system, like email.

So you pick a server, just like you pick Gmail or Yahoo

But then you can communicate with anyone

You just need their address and you are good to go

1. There are a lot of Twitter alternatives out there, and I've been experimenting with many of them

But let me put in a word for @joinmastodon@twitter.com

I've been impressed

https://journa.host/@juddlegum