Miguel Guhlin 🦉 🇵🇦 🇺🇲 @mguhlin@social.cleverlibre.org

Just migrated from a different instance because I heard all the cool kids were here. Honestly not sure how much of a difference the specific instance makes at this point.

As always, would love to (re)connect with my #iteachphysics and #modphys #modchem peoples.

The brain does not make new material from nothing; there's no such thing as Creatio ex nihilo from humans. To increase the variability of the ideas you generate, you have to go to places, people, and situations, that are new. Divine inspiration is the intercourse between the ideas and knowledge you already have and ingesting new information. Information and knowledge generation is a latent power in the information age.

#knowledgemanagement #information #innovation

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The exodus continues...

Another 100,000 new users joined mastodon on Saturday.
Mastodon stats from Nov 19, 2022: 7,230,521 accounts, +108,944 in the last day, +582,363 in the last week
#twittermigration #NewUsers #Welcome #mastodonmigration #mastodonstats

Okay I think I figured it out. #mastodon is the cool dinner party you were reluctant to attend but once you’re there, you’re so happy you went.
You have a cocktail with a #writer . You’re seated next to a #scientist . You smoke an after dinner joint with an #artist .
You leave relaxed, renewed, happy, and fulfilled. You wake up the next morning with your hope in humanity restored.
#mastodonmigration

It is time for my #introduction. I am a scholar of literature, cinema and gastronomy, mostly known as a Mexicanist, gradually recovering my CompLit roots. I swing between fighting for nuanced and complex understandings of Mexican culture in both sides of the border and advocating for cosmopolitanism and deprovincialization in criticism and culture. I work as Jarvis Thurston and Mona van Duyn Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. My site: www.ignaciosanchezprado.com

Important enough that I'll reiterate it in my own words:

Remember: If you're emptying out your twitter and impersonation is a potential threat vector/security concern, don't deactivate it— 30 days later, anyone can grab it. Instead, keep it active, and lock it.

Take up server space and clock cycles, AND keep trolls from camping your shit and playing hell with your rep.

I swear I'll never get tired of this one.

Greetings. I'm an armchair student of history (not just tech history), but given that I've been involved in the development of the Internet continuously since the early DOD ARPANET days (so, technically before there *was* an Internet) I'm watching the Twitter->Mastodon migration (and the nightmarish, shameful disintegration of Twitter itself) with considerable interest indeed. There is no historical precedent that I know of, and what's happening is even more remarkable given that it has been precipitated by a single chaotic individual in a matter of weeks.

The high speed with which I see social graphs rebuilding here is fascinating, and we can be sure that there are a bunch of PhD theses and books in the future that will attempt to explain all of this for future generations.

Sometimes when you're living through significant historical events it's not obvious except in retrospect, often many years later. What we're living through now with Twitter is clearly significant history, from technology, business, social, and other standpoints.

And even if Mastodon turns out ultimately to be a steppingstone on the way to other social media models able to scale far upward more easily, it is playing a crucial role now in providing a "lifeboat" for Twitter users who are unable to stomach what is happening to that firm with every passing day.

For all its many faults over the many years, we built the Internet to be resilient. And what we are seeing today is that not only has the technology met that goal from ARPANET onward, but thanks to the Internet's vast numbers of dedicated and caring users, even a monstrous train wreck like Elon's Twitter can't bring it (or us!) down.

Thank you all! -L

I recently posted about how I prefer to see #hashtags positioned within #Mastodon content, as a #ScreenReader user. That post has picked up some momentum, and my thanks to everyone that has shared, favourited and/or engaged with it via thoughtful discourse.

I'd like to highlight that screen reader users vary widely in their consumption habits and preferences, and my views are nothing but personal predilections. Regardless of the approach you take, you are expressing an interest in making your content as #accessible and #readable as possible to an audience who experience the world differently to how you do. This is heartening and refreshing to many Mastodon newcomers, and extremely appreciated.

Accessibility is not a binary state, and you are not doing it "wrong" if you put your hashtags inline, or at the end, or both! There are many more impactful aspects to #SocialMedia #equity, like #ImageDescriptions (also known as #AltText), which are in abundance on Mastodon and a joy to read.

#a11y #inclusion #InclusiveDesign #ScreenReaders