Catherine DonnellyFeb 22, 2023
Feargal Ryan 

Mastodon: a move to publicly owned scholarly knowledge. Correspondence at Nature.

"There is now a golden opportunity for every scholarly society to implement a Mastodon instance for anyone interested in their field. If the academic community can create a public resource protected from private interests, it could become a model for bringing the remaining scholarly record — encompassing text, data and code — into the Fediverse."

#Science #research #twittermigration

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

Mastodon: a move to publicly owned scholarly knowledge

Letter to the Editor

Feb 22, 2023 at 6:39amWeb
Show threadtoxtethogradyFeb 22, 2023
@feargal Creation of Mastodon instances throughout academia will be the first step to weaning the community off Twitter and Facebook, and eventually leaving both of those platforms in the dustbin. Where they belong...
Show threadtoxtethogradyFeb 22, 2023
@feargal And Mastodon has hit the big time, as it has been mentioned in a Supreme Court case involving Section 230...
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/21/supreme-court-justices-in-google-case-hesitate-to-upend-section-230.html
Supreme Court justices in Google case express hesitation about upending Section 230

Justices across the ideological spectrum expressed concern with breaking the delicate balance set by Section 230 in their ruling.

CNBC
Show threadtoxtethogradyFeb 22, 2023

@feargal Shout out to @cathygellis

"Cathy Gellis is an independent attorney in the San Francisco Bay Area who filed an amicus brief on behalf of a person running a Mastodon server, as well as a Google-funded startup advocacy group and a digital think tank. She told CNBC that briefs like hers and others seemed to have a big impact on the court.

“It would appear that if nothing else, amicus counsel, not just myself, but my other colleagues, may have saved the day because it was evident that the justices took a lot of those lessons on board,” Gellis said..."

Show threadAaron Feb 22, 2023
@toxtethogrady @feargal And with account portability, an academic can take a post elsewhere and still keep their presence.
Show threadDave JacksonFeb 22, 2023
@feargal
sounds good .Shame the article seems inaccessible to me.
Show threadCautionWIP 🎃+🇨🇦+🏳️‍🌈= Feb 23, 2023
@feargal The level of irony implicit in that article being paywalled is incalculable.
Show threadDanneauFeb 23, 2023
@feargal Moving toward something more representative of the commons, Should have very broad application.