[Air-L] Migration to Mastodon

[Dr. Emma Briant]

Dear all,

I wanted to highlight an issue to the community if I may relating to our
transition to Mastodon, which I think could have implications for diverse
and emerging scholar expertise. Of course Mastodon isn’t a replacement
Twitter, it operates differently, but it may well replace it in the daily
lives of many of us.

Twitter has helped many previously obscure scholars, experts and scientists
to get their voices out in a way previously not possible. I’m a little
worried the way Mastodon works may not enable visibility as easily for
those who aren’t already *known* in the same way, and potentially, in this
aspect, more readily reproduce inequality.
https://twitter.com/emmalbriant/status/1589170894303551488?s=46&t=GuaOniF5NwGVCSM-r9kPFg
https://mastodon.online/@emmalbriant/109295686807615811
The issue is when people follow… in notifications Mastodon doesn’t seem to
show follower bios like it does in Twitter. An apparently small thing, but
I think it has important implications as I try to explain in the thread.

Grateful for your thoughts.
Emma
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Dr Emma L Briant

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