Sarah FackrellJul 8, 2023

Okay, so some observations after a week of social media turmoil:

- A LOT of #LawTwitter people (including a fair number of law profs) migrated to Bluesky last weekend.

- It appears that many of them already had invite codes but didn't use them until Twitter melted down (again).

- Related: At least one of my friends noted that during the last Great Migration (November) they weren't really sure Twitter would implode, so they weren't ready to jump (or fully jump) quite yet

Show threadAlanJul 8, 2023
@design_law imo, one thing that fedi has as a long term draw over other centralized services is that organizations or clubs or looser common community interests can setup their own instance. Eg. A newspaper has a strong interest in their own instance, as perhaps might groups like lawyers, artists, scientists etc.
Show threadSarah Fackrell
@metaphase Yeah, we've seen some of that already in law, with the lawstodon and lawprofs instances. I'd love to see more of it.
Jul 8, 2023 at 8:24pmWeb
Show threadAlanJul 8, 2023
@design_law it’s speculation, but little tech affordances in community instances might be draws too. You can see some of that in photo posting groups, but for law, I don’t know maybe auto expansion of case reference links or something small