Mastodawn

Until @altmetric.com starts tracking research output on Mastodon like it does on Bluesky, you're probably not going to see a big migration of researchers here. Just sayin'.

Then again, Altmetric doesn't track LinkedIn either, and on some days it feels like the most functional space for academics out of the three. 🤔

#academicmastodon #academicchatter

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Oliver Brendel 1d ago

@alelazic @altmetric.com and how can we push altmetric.com to consider Mastodon ?
Sending massively requests for this to their email address ?
How does this work on the API side ? Could some #Mastodon programmers propose them how to do this ? Would this need searching for doi's ? Which would be only possible on #MastodonServers allowing full text search ?
#AcademicChatter

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David Weir 1d ago

@olibrendel And hopefully there will be an opt-out mechanism…

@alelazic @altmetric.com

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Aleksandra Lazić, PhD

@davidjamesweir @olibrendel @altmetric.com As far as I'm informed from discussions on Bluesky, Altmetric worked (is working?) on tracking Mastodon but there are "technical incompatibilities" (they even referred to it as their "white whale"). I don't think it's about the lack of demand. You could consider emailing them to learn more.