I just asked my communications and IT colleagues at #Stanford to consider hosting a #Mastodon server for our University community (as MIT has already done: mastodon.mit.edu).
Such institutional sponsorships (e.g., higher ed, academic associations, etc.) seem like a compelling & sustainable equilibrium for the #TwitterMigration. I also think organizations that do so would benefit in several ways without meaningful new risks.
#OpenSource #fediverse #Twitter #EconTwitter #Economics
@tdee I work for #Harvard and your post made me do a quick google of Harvard and #Mastodon, turned up this: https://mcz.harvard.edu/news/mcz-receives-13000-year-old-mastodon
Hmmmm, not _quite_ what's needed.
The MCZ has received the partial skeleton of a 13,000-year-old mastodon excavated from a site in upstate New York. The Bowser Road mastodon, nicknamed John Charles, was donated by the three investigators responsible for excavating and reporting the find. The MCZ thanks Stephen Vaughn, Dennis Vesper and Richard Michael Gramly for their generous gift.
Tom Dee
Richard A. Wells