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
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 ;)
Hendrik Erz, PhD
CarK 
Denny Vrandečić