|Ðr⟩⊕|JθΣħμαħ⟩⊗|Hεατħ⟩Nov 13, 2022

One problem I see with Mastodon is that it’s very community based. Right now, I’m on Mathstodon because it seems like a somewhat appropriate fit. I’d flip to social-qubit, but my work is heavily condensed matter. When a CM instance emerges, I’ll join, but then this will be isolated from the QI community on social-qubit (QI still features in my work as well).

Also, without a CM instance on Mastodon, I feel a nomad. And I don’t have the technical skills/time/money to make an instance myself.

Show thread|Ðr⟩⊕|JθΣħμαħ⟩⊗|Hεατħ⟩Nov 13, 2022

One possibility is to make “sub-instances” that people could pick and choose as they wish. For example, in a condensed matter instance, there could be a QI instance which could be shared between a CM sub-instance in social-qubit. There could also be quantum fluid, materials science, and soft condensed matter sub-instances as well.

Also, maybe to be able to “petition an instance”, where enough people can vote for an instance to exist and then, if it goes through, Mastodon itself create it.

Show threadSteven ThomsonNov 13, 2022
@JoshuahHeath Are there enough CM people here for there to be much demand, do you think? I've seen strong influx of QI people but I haven't found many CM folks yet. 🤔
Show thread|Ðr⟩⊕|JθΣħμαħ⟩⊗|Hεατħ⟩Nov 13, 2022
@physicssteve From what I can tell, I believe you are correct. A lot of QI people have migrated, but CM people are still mostly on Twitter (a big reason why I haven’t made a compete shift yet). I’m not sure why most CM people haven’t moved, or why the QI people were more ready to migrate, but hopefully a bigger influx of condensed matter and many body people will join, so we can try to build a “condensed-matterdon” instance.
Show threadSteven ThomsonNov 13, 2022
@JoshuahHeath I was reading about the Raspberry Pi instance (https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/an-escape-pod-was-jettisoned-during-the-fighting/) and how they host it on a Pi (https://www.mythic-beasts.com/order/rpi/) and it doesn't look too tricky to initially set one up like this. I guess it's then a question of paying for it, doing ongoing admin/moderation, and looking into days protection rules etc to make sure everything's above board. It's all doable but I'm not sure yet if there's enough demand for it to be worth the effort. 🤔
An escape pod was jettisoned during the fighting - Raspberry Pi

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Raspberry Pi
Show threadJarvist Moore Frost
@physicssteve @JoshuahHeath
Definitely sounds like too much effort!
I'm new to the Fediverse, but it seems a lot of community centres around Hashtags. So we could build something there. But what would fit? #CondensedMatter ? #CMTH ?
Or more specific elements like #ElectronicStructure ? #LatticeModel ? #DMRG ?
Nov 13, 2022 at 11:27pmWeb
Show thread|Ðr⟩⊕|JθΣħμαħ⟩⊗|Hεατħ⟩Nov 13, 2022

@Jarvist @physicssteve If we focus on hashtags, I’d say #condensedmatter or something similar. Then, other hashtags might be able to be used for sub-categories (#FermiLiquids , #TopologicalInsulators , etc). We could also base it off arXiv notation; so #cond-mat , with sub categories like #str-el .

Although the Raspberry PI idea sounds interesting, I don’t know if I’d have the time to properly set up and manage something that technical.

Show thread|Ðr⟩⊕|JθΣħμαħ⟩⊗|Hεατħ⟩Nov 13, 2022
@Jarvist @physicssteve looks like the hashtags don’t carry over for dashes, so #cond-mat becomes #cond. Perhaps #cond_mat? #str_el?
Show threadSteven ThomsonNov 14, 2022
@JoshuahHeath @Jarvist Yeah, something general like #CondensedMatter, #CondMat or #cond_mat would probably be good. Maybe one of the latter two as they're shorter, although the character limit is less restrictive here than on Twitter so I guess that's less of a consideration these days.
Show threadJarvist Moore FrostNov 14, 2022
@physicssteve @JoshuahHeath I read somewhere that CamelCase is better for accessibility (screen readers), it saves a character, and I think it looks prettier. I like #CondMat !