[Air-L] Mastodon help?

[Dr. Emma Briant]

Thank you that’s very helpful!!! I am sorted now and I appreciate the
reply!!!
Emma

On Tue, 1 Nov 2022 at 08:59, Casey Fiesler <Casey.Fiesler at colorado.edu>
wrote:

> 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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> *Casey Fiesler*
>
> Associate Professor
>
> Associate Chair for Graduate Studies
>
> Department of Information Science
>
> University of Colorado Boulder
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> www.caseyfiesler.com
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> @cfiesler <http://www.twitter.com/cfiesler>
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> *From:* Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Dr. Emma
> Briant via Air-L <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 1, 2022 6:48 AM
> *To:* AOIR <Air-L at listserv.aoir.org>
> *Subject:* [Air-L] Mastodon help?
>
> 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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