[Air-L] Mastodon help?

[Casey Fiesler]

I imagine others will have thoughts as well, or server suggestions, but (because this can be a bit confusing!) the short version is:  regardless of what instance you're on, you can still follow anyone across any instance. Your instance largely helps to determine what your feed looks like (and here's a flow chart that helps explain that: https://cybre.ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/000/569/353/original/38d934cf98e15722.png )

Many people are choosing to just go to mastodon.social which is the one run by the person who maintains Mastodon. It's a good default if you don't know where else to go, but it won't help curate your feed really.

There is also scholar.social but I've heard some mixed things about it, and I'm not sure who's running it.

hci.social has a lot of folks from the HCI side of the computer science community.

Also there are starting to be some lists to help you find who to follow, e.g. this one of tech policy & society folks: https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv/109257782127322261

Setting up something like this for AOIR might be a good idea!

Hope that's helpful. 🙂





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Hi folks, I was going to sign up but it’s saying I need to pick a server?
Which should I choose? Will I be able to see others if I just pick any
server? I don’t want to be unable to find anyone! This is very weird!
Thanks,
Emma
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