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As Musk reshapes Twitter, academics ponder taking flight

• smoldesu 4y ago
  > Many researchers are setting up profiles on social media site Mastodon As someone who loves Mastodon, this is hilarious. They're leaving Twitter because the illusion of a controlled social media feed has fallen apart, and now they're protesting by using a less-moderated service. I'd be genuinely surprised if any of them were still using the platform in a month's time.
  • salad-fan 4y ago
    Apologies if this is a noob question, but isn’t that the entire point of federation in Mastodon? To allow a community (server) to self-moderate (defederate) other communities (servers) they find problematic?
  • luckylion 4y ago
    Could they not set up their own instances, e.g. one for each institution, and federate only with similar institutions? It's fine to have different accounts on network.edu, gossip.info and family.org.
    • smoldesu 4y ago
      They could, it wouldn't be anywhere near the experience of Twitter though.