Jeremy J. LittauNov 18, 2022

This piece on Wired about Black Twitter is worth your time. It's something I've been thinking about a lot, about how uneven a migration to a new space ends up being.

It also is one thing I'm eyeing about Mastodon. There's a danger that servers become silos if we aren't intentional. If you listen to some of the Black scholars in my field, they are saying as much. Twitter makes their work visible across groups.

So how do we federate for inclusion? It will be a challenge.

https://www.wired.com/story/black-twitter-elon-musk/

There Is No Replacement for Black Twitter

A series of missteps by Elon Musk has called the fate of the platform’s cultural engine into question.

WIRED
Show threadKing Beauregard
@JeremyLittau Thus far, the secret with Mastodon seems to be using hashtags. Mastodons will look for hashtags on other servers, so if you want an article about a given topic to be found, supply appropriate hashtags.
Nov 20, 2022 at 5:55pmWeb