Daniel SusserOct 30, 2022

Has anyone found or spun up an STS/critical tech instance yet?

Seems like local feeds could be the best thing about this place—being able to experience communicative spaces without first having to connect with each member would give new entrants more visibility, make amassing high follower-counts/being at the center of dense networks less important

Show threadSeth LazarOct 30, 2022
@susser but yeah, I’d love to be part of an instance that was, broadly speaking, FAccT-y…
Show threadDaniel SusserOct 30, 2022
@sethlazar My sense is that it's pretty involved—would probably need a team of volunteers (though having some dedicated admins to coordinate would be great!).. Feels like something to explore after the semester ends :)
Show threadBrian C. Keegan, Ph.D.Oct 30, 2022
@sethlazar @susser Managing disciplinary-specific instances definitely should be the responsibility of professional/scholarly associations, but it seems like maintaining a website and listserv pushes the technical capacities of most.
Show threadMichael VealeOct 30, 2022
@bkeegan @sethlazar @susser I think it's going to be tricky moderating vis a vis external threat models, the challenge with open registrations is that you then need to moderate internally... and that's tricky... in the end, a crossdisiplinary community will have a lot of homes
Show threadDaniel SusserOct 30, 2022
@mikarv @bkeegan @sethlazar Yea, agreed. Asking tech policy people who think and talk a lot about content moderation to actually spend some time doing it could be good for the field though :)
Show threadMichael VealeOct 30, 2022
@susser @bkeegan @sethlazar that's exactly why i set up an instance (:
Show threadDaniel SusserOct 30, 2022
@mikarv @sethlazar @bkeegan Oh nice, share what you learn!!
Show threadMichael Veale
@susser @sethlazar @bkeegan today I learned the initial instance I ran was about 2.5 years behind the current version, and that updating it requires grappling with a lot of weird dependencies. But it is done now.
Oct 30, 2022 at 4:30pmWeb