Mastodawn

Björn Brembs Feb 21, 2023

Many scholars are leaving Twitter for #Mastodon, a public, decentralized alternative, impervious to private take-over:

https://www.science.org/content/article/musk-reshapes-twitter-academics-ponder-taking-flight

Scholarly organizations are already supporting this migration:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00486-3

and

There are analogous solutions for another public good in private hands: journals. There are even levers the scholarly community could pull to incentivize an analogous migration:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526634

What are we waiting for?

As Musk reshapes Twitter, academics ponder taking flight

Many researchers are setting up profiles on social media site Mastodon

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mrjonno Feb 21, 2023

@brembs Positive, indeed!
I've had cause to write to the UK TV provider #channel4 and asked why they don't have a presence on Mastodon, I hope they will in due course.

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@mrjonno @brembs
UK TV (and radio) broadcaster BBC still has "you can find me on Twitter at _____" as part of almost every presenter's script, especially the TV rolling news channel.

That needs to stop.

The Beeb have been building out websites for decades, and a streaming platform more recently.

They run their own DNS servers, and they are their own LIR for their own range of IP addresses.

A Mastodon instance is not a huge undertaking.

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mrjonno

@dec23k @brembs
Absolutely get this. Seems there's a great deal to unpack here with regards to the @BBCWorld ?
Maybe not today because this is a significant topic to do it justice.
Briefly, I am outraged that UK govt has sought to turn Aunty into Commercial TV and not the purpose of PSB. I listen to R4 and also dismayed - especially by Today. I still find some hope in WS and thanks for R3 and R6 as not sold out yet.
To have to pay a TV license for the mostly trash that is #Freeview , well...

Is @BBCWorld (and @BBCBreaking ) just a 3rd party bot?
There seems to be a lot of them: @bbcnews (and some birdsite ones that I won't link).

Although @BBCNews has a 'tick' emoji after the name.