Dan BlickensderferWelcome to @clintlalonde
Clint Lalonde (he/him)@Dan_Blick thanks. Feels very Tweetdeck-ish right now. You know anyone who is running their own instance of this?
@clintlalonde I'm working to get one setup this week. I've also been experimenting with talking to mastodon.social programmatically.
Robin DeRosa@Dan_Blick @clintlalonde So if you make an "instance" it still somehow talks to the larger platform? I am trying so hard to wrap my small bookish brain around this.
@actualham @Dan_Blick Exactly. Esentially, you could host your own instance of Mastodon (like you have your own website) and it would connect to other instances of Mastodon. potential best of both worlds - you get to own your own data AND get the network effects of distributed network. That's the theory anyway.
Tanya **moved**@clintlalonde @actualham @Dan_Blick @dnorman
I'm conflicted on this one...The idea of having your own instance fits in with the idea of student-centered learning data I've been thinking about.
But I increasingly worry about losing the idea of communal areas. To me, "mine that I choose to share" is different than "ours."
Kate@Tdorey @clintlalonde @actualham @Dan_Blick @dnorman I worry too that things divide quickly between those who can host and those who can't. Or is the vision that everyone has a Server of One's Own? (@econproph) is this what we need? (Why?)
To me this looks more and more like the housing market, with a divide between owners and renters. So then who feels at home? Who is more vulnerable?
@katebowles @Tdorey @actualham @Dan_Blick @dnorman @econproph This is where IT needs to step up and play a bigger role with educational technology. Move beyond being procurers of systems & enabling. It used to be a role for higher ed to be the hosting service for...well, for the internet. It is a role that higher ed IT has, for the most part, capitulated to others.
Fredrik Graver 🎥🥌@clintlalonde @katebowles @Tdorey @actualham @Dan_Blick @dnorman @econproph I can't express how much I agree with this! A year ago, our IT dept. even shut down our hosted Wordpress blogs. Now they want us all over on Sharepoint.