SmaranNov 5, 2022

There seems to be a sentiment circulating that the move from Twitter to Mastodon will make it harder for scholars in the Global South to access academic resources and networks.

Wouldn’t an open source and decentralized service like Mastodon actually increase access? Why should our global public sphere be controlled by one capitalist in the global North? Unless the implication is that GS scholars lack tech literacy, which is patronizing at best.

#ethics #access #Mastodon #twittermigration

Show threadStephan
@smaran
I was also thinking about the question and don't think it will have anything to do with a lack in tech literacy. But I'm wondering, could there be infrastructure problems in the GS for setting up many instances at the same time like it's happening right now in the GN? A second point is, that instances like scholar.social are already closed again. So what are academics doing who are joining only in a couple of month? Will there be enough "academic" instances then?
Nov 5, 2022 at 4:53pmWeb
Show threadSmaranNov 5, 2022
@KielerPirat These are good questions.