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Perhaps each research area need a mastodon instance to provide a locus for discussion and sharing of new work? Organised nationally or trans-nationally.
by 2b3a51 4y ago
Perhaps each research area need a mastodon instance to provide a locus for discussion and sharing of new work? Organised nationally or trans-nationally.
- arrrg 4y agoYou don’t need to make it that complicated, really not. Mastodon can already be a drop-in replacement for Twitter for many use cases. The biggest hurdle are, as ever, network effects. Not infrastructure, not features. For me personally most of the people I care about already are on Mastodon. It was a smooth transition for me personally and I don’t miss a thing. All that needs to happen is for that to be also true for you and Mastodon is a drop in replacement.
- lambic 4y agoOn a personal level this is all true, but on an infrastructure level Mastodon can only survive and grow (and remain federated) with many well managed and well funded instances.
- arrrg 4y agoI’m really not too worried about that. The biggest issue I can see developing is a Gmail-ification of Mastodon (with a lot of people being on a single instance). That would be a pity – but in terms of freedom e-mail is still pretty great.
- lambic 4y agoThat's harder to manage. Universities have dedicated IT teams and infra; individual research groups, especially underfunded ones, do not, and organising research groups on any grand scale is like herding cats.