[Air-L] Migration to Mastodon

Sun Nov 6 15:10:19 PST 2022

I set up an account on Mastodon last week, and like it a lot.  But I am
unlikely to leave Twitter in the foreseeable future.  Much as I disagree
with a lot of what Elon Musk is doing on Twitter, I still value many of the
contacts I have there.

-- PL

On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 10:21 AM Dr. Emma Briant via Air-L <
air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

> 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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> > Briant via Air-L <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> > *Sent:* Sunday, November 6, 2022 9:26:48 AM
> > *To:* AOIR <Air-L at listserv.aoir.org>
> > *Subject:* [Air-L] Migration to Mastodon
> >
> > 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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> Accountability
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