What is better than a list? A list of lists!
For academic Mastodon, we now have a central place to gather all lists that folks have created:
https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon
Thanks to the creators of the lists @perspektivbrocken @jwyg @brenton_peterson @JauneBaguette @thhaase
@hendrikerz @perspektivbrocken @jwyg @brenton_peterson @JauneBaguette @thhaase
Great work! Want to add the #religidons ?
With thanks to @konrad for the idea, I have created a Google Form to help build up a list of #religion #scholars #religionscholars #Religidons on Mastodon. Consider adding yourself ot the list to help new folks find other religion scholars on the network. Google form: https://forms.gle/AqY7JYTi22VvFN7k7 #Religidons spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uBwBthFWMCTKxMEn6liNosDX8bOEmoNnFZnWD_xu_7E/edit?usp=sharing I reserve the right to curate the list gently, remove spam, etc. contact me if you see something problematic on the list.
There's also the #histodons public Google sheet
Form Responses 1 History Scholars, Teachers, and Graduate Students on Mastodon This is a list of self-submitted information about historians on the social network Mastodon, created to help us find eachother on a growing social network. To add yourself to this list:,<a href="https://docs.google.c...
@hendrikerz @brenton_peterson @JauneBaguette @thhaase @perspektivbrocken @jwyg
@carolynownbey have you seen this? ⬆️
@hendrikerz better to also add them to
fedi.directory https://fedi.directory/
or to
Trunk https://communitywiki.org/trunk
@hendrikerz I hope these lists are opt-in. Otherwise some people are going to be cross. This kind of thing is not really done on this server. If it is all opt-in, all good.
Just a FYI.
Attached: 1 image Researchers in digital technologies, law, policy and society in the Fediverse/Mastodon, fill in the form to add your handle to the spreadsheet, and consult the results to see if there are people you'd like to follow! (Inspired by @[email protected]'s effort to gather historians) Form: https://forms.office.com/r/mPLptbqccP Results: https://liveuclac-my.sharepoint.com/:x:/g/personal/ucqnmve_ucl_ac_uk/ES11jfqXsNVNpd1roXFokNkBzRux6n2xThtV4CsgqpSj8g?e=rKrajY (I tried to host the form on my NextCloud server in federated spirit, but forms there don't support sharing results live yet).
@thhaase @perspektivbrocken @hendrikerz @JauneBaguette @jwyg @brenton_peterson
Hi there! We’ve compiled a directory of Literary Studies scholars on Mastodon. Please add us to your list of lists.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/172wtP1Upmv-uUoIAqgTFwP2-_cPdM0Egz5xkTGBbjZU/htmlview
@hendrikerz @perspektivbrocken @jwyg @brenton_peterson @JauneBaguette @thhaase
By maintaining a list of German political entities present in the Fediverse (and thus on Mastodon) I have learnt:
List do not scale well.
Thus I propose we build a #KnowledgeGraph together, like #Wikidata but specifically for the #Fediverse.
More details on that idea:
So, why not enable the #Fediverse community to built and curate their own #KnowledgeGraph? It could start with manually gathered information like https://codeberg.org/open/fedipolitik/ #fedipolitk but maybe later public information could be added automatically. This would facilitate the creation of topical account lists and thus improve the user experience both of old and new #fediverse inhabitants. It also would help to spread the knowledge about such great technologies like #wikidata and #sparql. 3/3
> Why SPARQL (and thus RDF)
→ Because it offers the flexibility that might be needed. The alternative would be SQL but this would require to predefine a table schema a priori. With RDF the knowledge could grow organically (like #wikidata)
> I have tons of experience and that never worked out well for anyone involved.
→ I do not understand this. On what topic is your experience and what did never work out well?
@hendrikerz @cark @perspektivbrocken @jwyg @brenton_peterson @JauneBaguette @thhaase
The task can organically get more complex, as the lists grow, and people suddenly defy simple categorizations, etc.
I also have tons of experience with the term knowledge graph, and it had really worked out well for many of the projects I worked on ;)
@hendrikerz @perspektivbrocken @jwyg @brenton_peterson @JauneBaguette @thhaase
Wikipedia: hold my non-mastodon specific beer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists
@mathias @hendrikerz @perspektivbrocken @jwyg @JauneBaguette @thhaase
Imagine being the curator of a "List of buildings and structures in Puerto Rico".
I recognize it's actually a list of notable buildings, but it made me laugh to think of someone documenting every new home and corner market built.
Maureen Metzger
Hendrik Erz, PhD
Thomas Renkert 🥯
Torsten Kathke
IHC
Joseph Morris
Jason Goroncy
Jeremy Kidwell 
Thorbjörn Sievert
Henrik Örnebring
Wythenshawe Methodist Churches
Nemo_bis 🌈
Konrad M. Lawson
Level 98 🇺🇦
Rick
Anna S. Brasch
Egbert Rijke
Wolfgang Böhl
aRubes
Victor Venema
Marc Jones
Mathias Vermeulen
Smaran
John Lusk
EmilyTav
jonathan w. y. gray 🐨
CarK 
Denny Vrandečić
mark henick 
Mathias Schindler
Brenton Peterson