Victor CastonI started an account at BlueSky because so many other academic #philosophers had signed up, but there is even less activity than here.
I'm especially interested in #GreekPhilosophy but also #philosophyofmind and #metaphysics.
Any others out there?
Philipp Steinkrüger@TrueSciPhi has a list of philosophy accounts on Bluesky I think. it’s really dire here, but I really don’t want to make an account there.
CJ Stevens - Metaphysiology@philippsteinkrueger @vcaston @TrueSciPhi I don't find it dire here at all. Do you follow @philosophy ? And tag it in your philosophy related posts? All new platforms are suffering from the "spreading out" of user activity, but it's worth sticking to one and building a community. For my money, the best place to put in that effort is here.
@WorldImagining @vcaston I do, and the hashtag, and lots of other stuff. I even wrote @icymi_philosophy, which follows 460 philosophy accounts and boosts those posts that get most interactions. Unfortunately, interactions on here are so rare that the bot is often forced to boost posts without interactions whatsoever...
@philippsteinkrueger @vcaston @icymi_philosophy Ah, didn't realize you were behind the icymi bot. It also regularly boosts posts (of mine anyway) that are not philosophy related. Though I guess this is a ML learning curve thing. On the other hand, personally, I also enjoy that over here we don't get much of the nonsense discourse that regularly pops up on philosophy twitter and attracts huge levels of interaction. A case in point, when it comes to chastity discourse, I choose abstinence 🙃
@WorldImagining @vcaston I definitely don't miss all the attention-seeking philosophy tweets, but it is too quiet here. More than half of the accounts the bot follows haven't been active in 6 months (so effectively dead) and there are very few new accounts being made (I watch the well-known lists).
Regarding the bot: it's not doing any post analysis but simply goes by interactions, the idea being that posts that many philosophers interact with are of potential interest to other philosophers.
Regarding the bot: it's not doing any post analysis but simply goes by interactions, the idea being that posts that many philosophers interact with are of potential interest to other philosophers.
@philippsteinkrueger @vcaston Out of curiosity, would you have an idea who is the biggest active philosophy account on Mastodon? In biology/life sciences, for example, there's @ct_bergstrom and anyone who follows him has a pretty reliable source of things to interact with. I kind of have the impression that "nodes" or "focal points" like this play a major cohering role.