I joined this site a fortnight ago today.
I did not have a clue how it worked, or about its lore and culture.
Now, it seems intuitive - though not because I am adept but because networks and protocols are familiar and practical things.
We use them all the time: www, mobiles, emails, etc.
And this place is structured to encourage calm civility.
It was Twitter which was strange and, in many ways, inhumane - rewarding clicks and rage and vileness.
We just got used to it.
And now we are out.
Ditto:
The potential of Mastodon for academic social networks
http://www.jmlilly.net/mastodon
At the time of this writing, Twitter is in chaos. For those of us who are academics using Twitter primarily for a professional social network, this could be a good thing. It gives us the opportunity for a fresh start, a chance to cultivate something different and better. We can look at what is working and what is not working, consider how we would like things to be, and take steps to make that a reality.
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Jonathan Lilly
Fiona