[Air-L] Migration to Mastodon

Sun Nov 6 07:12:53 PST 2022

Dear Ranjana, Stu and Rob,
Thank you so much for your replies! Firstly, I just want to make it clear
that I embrace the effort by Aram Sinnreich, Rick Forno and everyone else
helping to build a community for us on Mastodon. I am not trying to
dissuade anyone from trying it out, particularly given the horrible turn
Twitter has taken! I think it's great to have this also available to us. It
is good to hear (thanks Ranjana!) that there are other apps that we can use
that do enable people to see bios in the notifications and it's wonderful
to hear from your experience Rob of it opening up your community. I think
the most important message and takeaway is that of awareness that it will
be how people *use *it that will determine how well it works for us all?
Often people do seem to be approaching it, at first, like they would have
done with Twitter, and I am not sure if journalists will all know they
would be best, for these reasons, using a different app. I think we may
need to spread the word if so!
Thank you all for your thoughts!!
Emma

On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 4:50 AM Ranjana Das <r.das at surrey.ac.uk> wrote:

> Good to think about these dynamics - especially for issues around
> in/visibility as you say Emma. A side note - but the Mastodon app I’m using
> - called Metatext - when it’s notifying me about new followers is always
> showing up a notification with the follower’s bio. I don’t have a
> screenshot of the notification - but on my locked screen (I’ve enabled
> notifications for the moment) - it appears to show the bio if using the
> Metatext app. Of course you raise other points which aren’t just about this
> - and mainly about considering how much has been invested into
> Twitter-as-default for emerging scholars who won’t have an immediate
> audience elsewhere as other, more visible ones immediately. Not sure what
> the answer is really…
>
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> 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.
>
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> 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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