Very unscientific poll just out of curiosity.
What percentage of people on here are members of the Association for Computing Machinery? Or have at least heard of it?
I had never heard of this organization before last week and know nothing about it.

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I am
3.8%
I am not, but have heard of it
42.3%
Never heard of it
53.8%
Never heard of it but somehow a member
0%
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0%
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@danhon makes lots of sense. The only one I am aware of so far is not a news organisation (organization πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ) but a professional body the #AssociationforComputingMachinery or #ACM members can join as well as it being an instance for official accounts. I’m interested to see whether universities and other academic institutions create their own instances. There would be the same advantage of verification.