Chris Slaby

Jumping back on here now, again?

It’s community—that’s what social media has offered quite a few of us. And now we need to make it again, or somewhere else. I can’t imagine if this had happened at the height of the pandemic. Not that the outcomes of social media at that time were great exactly. But boy was that connectivity a lifeline for lots of people.

Jul 29, 2023 at 12:07pmMastodon for iOS
Show threadChris SlabyJul 29, 2023
The frustration/concern now is the splintering. People are everywhere. This is no one primary alternative (including this place). It wouldn’t be bad for people to get outside, to meet IRL, as people said twenty years ago. But especially for academics (among others, in sure), digital community is so important because we’re so scattered, and more and more nowadays institutionally untethered.