It appears that this instance is taking off! With that in mind, do folks have any suggestions as to governance or administration?
We are happy to run Sigmoid Social just as we have been running The Gradient for 4 years now, as a space for the AI community to communicate, share insights, and more.
But we are also open to not having total control!
@Riedl It might be nice to spread awareness that by default, i.e. public visibility, every single post in a thread will show up separately on timelines.
Some guides recommend to only make the first post public, and all follow-ups unlisted, so people only see the full thread if they click on the first post.
Folks coming from Twitter are likely not used to the concept of post visibility (& I'm not sure yet if that's more of a burden than a feature for writing threads, but think ppl should know).
@cpaxton @mbollmann Threading on Mastodon frustrates me. The Toot! ios app helps a lot with indicators in the UI. But it is a bandaid.
I think there are ways in which academics use threads and quote-tweets that are different and more constructive than other communities.
@Riedl @mbollmann i think there are plenty of people who use threads very well outside of academia, i don't like the idea that only academics/researchers can do it right.
Quote-tweet dunking is a real problem, but I'm reluctant to say mastodon does it better, right now mastodon seems... pretty ideologically homogeneous. as in all people I broadly agree with. Wonder how it will change as it grows
@cpaxton Oh oops, I didn't mean to say that only academics do threading right (I need to sleep). I meant to say it was important to how they come to communicate about work and discover work.
I'm torn on quote tweeting. I see the potential for abuse but I also see it as really useful. It could be an option for an instance to use or not. Community standards can be set on how it's used.
@thegradient @Riedl +1 #tootorial 😍 Also hashtags for "slides/recording for a talk I gave", a new job announcement, etc? For many it is hard to improve their presence on social media as they don’t have much of their own work to share yet. Can we enable them to gain visibility by sharing their thoughts on other papers? Like a hashtag for “I read X, here are some thoughts”?
Perhaps we can have a github repo for the community guidelines/docs where people can open issues for their suggestions?
@Riedl @thegradient @anamarasovic cool, only whos to say whats early career? Ba ma industry phd post young prof? Just make it a type like new papers, or paper summaries
(Admittedly, I have some stakes here... I understood that when I, a nobody, write about a Stanford paper it suddenly gets traction, but not about a more exciting Tsinghua one. Since then I am writing about papers I read, regardless of their fame hoping to highlight what's interesting not hype. )
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