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David PfauI still think this site has potential long term, but honestly, I've been back to The Other Site a lot more lately, just because it's too hard to look away from a trainwreck as it's happening. Yes, yes, can't let the public square be owned by billionaires, gotta build a new model for social media, etc etc. But... there's just nothing as remotely outrageous happening over here. I feel like I have to enjoy the show while it lasts.
You can move out to the countryside for a while, but you'll always miss the excitement of the city.
Memo Akten@pfau as long as you have the freedom to choose when you get to visit the city, and when you get to chill in your countryside home.
(and if there's a particularly spectacular fireworks show in the city, then sure, go in every day :)
(and if there's a particularly spectacular fireworks show in the city, then sure, go in every day :)
Mike Tyka
Gbetondji@pfau the tranquility of Mastodon is hard to get used to when bird app always has something outrageous going on. I've been there all day reading on the FTX situation
@jean72human It takes time to build a network.
@jean72human Plus midterms, FTX, Twitter itself...it does feel like there has been just an exceptional amount of drama lately.
@pfau yes a lot more than usual. But I doubt that Mastodon will ever be like that and honestly I do not really want it to be exactly like that. Twitter is too much anxiety
Mark RiedlI am finding more informative, work-related posts here now. And I even open the local feed on sigmoid.social. But I keep going back to birdsite for the disaster tourism.
Jacob Eisenstein@jacobeisenstein @pfau Yeah, I was going to start encouraging that. But then I got busy.
Jeremiah Milbauer@Riedl @jacobeisenstein @pfau since posts can’t really trend here, mastodon also incentivizes more discussion in the #PaperThread vs 🦤 if you want to keep it discoverable in #feeds
@jacobeisenstein @Riedl @pfau I don't use it much -- I meant the recommendation algorithm / feed, not the trending tab.
@jerelev @jacobeisenstein @pfau
On the fediverse, we are the algorithm. Discovery is poor unless we boost things.
@jacobeisenstein @Riedl @pfau Boosting, always. Commenting, it would depend on the visibility setting of the reply. For instance, these replies are "unlisted" so they're visible to all, but won't show up in feeds/search (I think)
Daniel Lowd@Riedl @pfau @jerelev @jacobeisenstein unlisted replies are shown to followers, but not in Local or Federated feeds.
@lowd @Riedl @pfau @jacobeisenstein Also I think the app options might also be different from the web client ones. I saw this guide: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/posting/#privacy
@Riedl @jacobeisenstein I plan on posting my preprints both here and Over There. Will be interesting to see the different responses it gets.
Neil Tenenholtz@ntenenz @jacobeisenstein @pfau You can take the academics out of twitter. But can you take the twitter out of academics? 🙃
Yangfeng Ji@jacobeisenstein @Riedl @pfau
Maybe it needs an opportunity to stimulate more posting/discussions, for example, the upcoming NeurIPS or EMNLP.
Maybe it needs an opportunity to stimulate more posting/discussions, for example, the upcoming NeurIPS or EMNLP.