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What's the community of academics? I haven't joined Twitter specifically because I think it's a horrible medium for communicating science or meeting with academ

What's the community of academics? I haven't joined Twitter specifically because I think it's a horrible medium for communicating science or meeting with academics. Can you point me there?

detaro 4y ago
Just from a quick look, no claim to completeness, intentionally including also small ones: https://fediscience.org/ https://fediscience.org/ https://vis.social/ https://vis.social/ https://mstdn.science/ https://mstdn.science/ https://astrodon.social/ https://astrodon.social/ https://mapstodon.space/ https://mapstodon.space/ currently not taking signups: https://scholar.social/ https://scholar.social/ https://scicomm.xyz/ https://scicomm.xyz/
- notpushkin 4y ago
  https://qoto.org/ https://qoto.org/ is another really nice instance oriented on STEM. It adds some features like LaTeX and Markdown support (not sure how well do those federate though).
- baq 4y ago
  How do I follow a server with an account on a different server? I don’t want to register on multiple servers since it’s a hassle…
  - detaro 4y ago
    not sure what you mean by "follow a server"? You can interact with/follow people on other servers from yours.
    - baq 4y ago
      That’s the thing, I don’t really want to find people to follow, I guess? Not out of band at least. First I need to find a few of their posts. How do I do that?
      - hairofadog 4y ago
        Follow a hashtag. Posts from various different servers will show up in your feed, and you can follow people by just clicking “follow”.
    - mgerdts 4y ago
      Each server has a local timeline. Some are visible to non-subscribers, some are not. I’m on fosstodon which has this as the local timeline. https://fosstodon.org/web/public/local https://fosstodon.org/web/public/local On many servers I can do the obvious substitution to see that server’s local timeline. I don’t think I’ve seen any servers that link that from their top level page.
      - baq 4y ago
        > https://fosstodon.org/web/public/local https://fosstodon.org/web/public/local This presents me with a log in form.
        ZeroGravitas 4y ago
        Might be related to this message they have on their main page: > Due to the massive influx of users from Twitter, we have had to temporarily close registrations. Please check back later if you wish to join Fosstodon.
      - neogodless 4y ago
        This asks for a login - but you can't use "your" login, you have to create a login for that server.
  - killing_time 4y ago
    It's pretty straightforward: you either click on their profile or (if you know someone's username@server via some other medium), search for them on your 'home' server and you'll see their profile. Then just click the 'follow' button. Under the covers this sets up the federated follow relationship, but the UX feels the same as following someone on twitter. There is one slightly more complicated scenario; if for some reason you're exploring a different server and find someone there you want to follow. In that case you still click the follow button but have to provide _your_ username@server string which triggers the necessary back-and-forth to get the follow relationship set up.
    - baq 4y ago
      That makes sense, but my case is before I know who to follow. Is there any way to explore what’s going on on a server? Like browsing a news group on Usenet or checking a subreddit before subscribing?
      - xaduha 4y ago
        > Like browsing a news group on Usenet or checking a subreddit before How would you do that on Twitter? Follow the hashtags. Why do you insist on limiting it to a server? That's not really how it is supposed to work anyway, it's not those things you mentioned.
        baq 4y ago
        But how do I know what hashtags are there? I don't know what to follow is my issue. I need to bootstrap my set of followed things and people and how do I do that?
        xaduha 4y ago
        If you're not a part of some clique that decides to move off Twitter together, then I doubt you'll be able to just recreate a similar environment. Otherwise for someone who posts frequently and has a good following, then it's probably worth it to start posting on Twitter and Mastodon at the same time, that's the only way it happens. Big movers and shakers are either going to stay on Twitter or drag everyone else with them, basically unlikely to happen.
  - xaduha 4y ago
    It's federated, you don't need to register on multiple servers.
- tomrod 4y ago
  https://econtwitter.net https://econtwitter.net
- Matumio 4y ago
  A notable recent addition, https://sigmoid.social/ https://sigmoid.social/ for machine learning stuff. (Just a few days old, 3k users.)
nobody1231 4y ago
https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon

What's the community of academics? I haven't joined Twitter specifically because I think it's a horrible medium for communicating science or meeting with academics. Can you point me there?

detaro 4y ago

Just from a quick look, no claim to completeness, intentionally including also small ones: https://fediscience.org/ https://fediscience.org/ https://vis.social/ https://vis.social/ https://mstdn.science/ https://mstdn.science/ https://astrodon.social/ https://astrodon.social/ https://mapstodon.space/ https://mapstodon.space/ currently not taking signups: https://scholar.social/ https://scholar.social/ https://scicomm.xyz/ https://scicomm.xyz/

notpushkin 4y ago
https://qoto.org/ https://qoto.org/ is another really nice instance oriented on STEM. It adds some features like LaTeX and Markdown support (not sure how well do those federate though).
baq 4y ago
How do I follow a server with an account on a different server? I don’t want to register on multiple servers since it’s a hassle…
- detaro 4y ago
  not sure what you mean by "follow a server"? You can interact with/follow people on other servers from yours.
  - baq 4y ago
    That’s the thing, I don’t really want to find people to follow, I guess? Not out of band at least. First I need to find a few of their posts. How do I do that?
    - hairofadog 4y ago
      Follow a hashtag. Posts from various different servers will show up in your feed, and you can follow people by just clicking “follow”.
  - mgerdts 4y ago
    Each server has a local timeline. Some are visible to non-subscribers, some are not. I’m on fosstodon which has this as the local timeline. https://fosstodon.org/web/public/local https://fosstodon.org/web/public/local On many servers I can do the obvious substitution to see that server’s local timeline. I don’t think I’ve seen any servers that link that from their top level page.
    - baq 4y ago
      > https://fosstodon.org/web/public/local https://fosstodon.org/web/public/local This presents me with a log in form.
      - ZeroGravitas 4y ago
        Might be related to this message they have on their main page: > Due to the massive influx of users from Twitter, we have had to temporarily close registrations. Please check back later if you wish to join Fosstodon.
    - neogodless 4y ago
      This asks for a login - but you can't use "your" login, you have to create a login for that server.
- killing_time 4y ago
  It's pretty straightforward: you either click on their profile or (if you know someone's username@server via some other medium), search for them on your 'home' server and you'll see their profile. Then just click the 'follow' button. Under the covers this sets up the federated follow relationship, but the UX feels the same as following someone on twitter. There is one slightly more complicated scenario; if for some reason you're exploring a different server and find someone there you want to follow. In that case you still click the follow button but have to provide _your_ username@server string which triggers the necessary back-and-forth to get the follow relationship set up.
  - baq 4y ago
    That makes sense, but my case is before I know who to follow. Is there any way to explore what’s going on on a server? Like browsing a news group on Usenet or checking a subreddit before subscribing?
    - xaduha 4y ago
      > Like browsing a news group on Usenet or checking a subreddit before How would you do that on Twitter? Follow the hashtags. Why do you insist on limiting it to a server? That's not really how it is supposed to work anyway, it's not those things you mentioned.
      - baq 4y ago
        But how do I know what hashtags are there? I don't know what to follow is my issue. I need to bootstrap my set of followed things and people and how do I do that?
        xaduha 4y ago
        If you're not a part of some clique that decides to move off Twitter together, then I doubt you'll be able to just recreate a similar environment. Otherwise for someone who posts frequently and has a good following, then it's probably worth it to start posting on Twitter and Mastodon at the same time, that's the only way it happens. Big movers and shakers are either going to stay on Twitter or drag everyone else with them, basically unlikely to happen.
- xaduha 4y ago
  It's federated, you don't need to register on multiple servers.
tomrod 4y ago
https://econtwitter.net https://econtwitter.net
Matumio 4y ago
A notable recent addition, https://sigmoid.social/ https://sigmoid.social/ for machine learning stuff. (Just a few days old, 3k users.)

nobody1231 4y ago

https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon