Konrad M. Lawson

@[email protected]
213 Followers
241 Following
273 Posts
Historian of modern East Asia he/him
Lecturer at University of St Andrews
From Stavanger, Norway
Live in Edinburgh, Scotland


#transnationalhistory #spatialhistory #japanesehistory #taiwanhistory #koreanhistory #chinesehistory #eastasianhistory #mastodonhistorians #gischat #qgis #dh #rstats #python #digitalhumanities #openaccess #internetarchive #digitization #archives #digitalarchives #histodons #historodons #asianists
Webhttps://muninn.net/
Frog in a Wellhttps://froginawell.net

Institutehttps://spatialhistory.net

Languagesen, no, 日本語, 한국어, 中文 Read: es, de, it, id
Show threadKonrad M. LawsonNov 5, 2022
5/ The Mastodon instance migration procedure: 1) export follows from here and import them over at social.coop 2) leave a goodbye message here so frozen account has informative last message 3) follow the instruction steps for migration feature in Mastodon settings 5) Watch as your old followers trickle in on new server, but last time I did this it was 100% - my guess is that followers get some kind of choice of whether to transfer? What do you see on your end?
Show threadKonrad M. LawsonNov 5, 2022
4/ Because lots of people I would like to interact with (and have turn up in hashtag searches), I decided to move. I applied and was accepted at social.coop. It is not for everyone, but here is what I like: 1) they don't seem to silence major instnaces 2) after probation period, you are expected to pay monthly $1-10 to help upkeep of server, so it is sustainable 3) it has wonderfully thoughout and democratic governance structure.
Show threadKonrad M. LawsonNov 5, 2022

3/ One reason to "silence" an instance is that, though it has lots of great people, it has poor moderation, and you might not want its hashtag or federated feed from coming into your own instance.

However, it appears that scholar.social decided to "silence" 7 out of the top 20 Mastodon instances. These include: mastodon.online, mastodon.sdf.org, mastodon.social, mastodon.cloud, and fosstodon.org

I see their toots in my home feed, but if I search for a hashtag mentioned, I get nothing.

Show threadKonrad M. LawsonNov 5, 2022

2/3 Instance hosts all have difficult decisions on moderation, an important way to make Mastodon a welcome and safe space. They can fully “block” or de-federate bad actors entirely or block media.

They can also "silence" or limit interaction. As I understand this allows you to follow people and read their toots, but crucially removes them from search results when you search for a hashtag. There may be some good reasons for this.

Attached are images that show the admin view:

Konrad M. LawsonNov 5, 2022

Hello everyone, thanks to those of you who followed me as I migrated my old Mastodon account (of several years!) from mastodon.xyz to scholar.social. There is a really great community here but I'm moving over to a new account:

@konrad

If Mastodon's wonderful migrate feature works smoothly I think many (most? all?) followers will get transferred over or have otion to. All my old toots stay safely on the frozen account here. I’ll post reasons below. 1/

#instancemigration

Show threadKonrad M. LawsonNov 5, 2022
@DrLindseyFitzharris @katherineschof8 of course! Here is the form! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScZL1FsDAFRDXrkJBycG5s_SJ59Li5kqk7K936SieOn8sCpGQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
Konrad M. LawsonNov 4, 2022
Torsten KathkeNov 4, 2022

Can’t stop historian brain from noticing that the fact most of us have kept their Twitter handle here is kind of like chimneys on houses now heated electrically:

Something that used to be an infrastructural necessity because there was only one domain is now a vestigial design feature.

#histodons #twitterstorians #historians #history

Konrad M. LawsonNov 4, 2022
Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨Nov 4, 2022
Every Mastodon explanation is like "It's very simple, your account is part of a kerflunk, and each kerflunk can talk to each other as part of a bumblurt. At the moment everyone you flurgle can see your bloops but only people IN your kerflunk can quark your nerps. Kinda like email."
Konrad M. LawsonNov 4, 2022
Grumpy PhilosopherNov 4, 2022
Ok, Mastodon is officially a lot more awesome than I had realised. There's a federated server for everyone who's really into bitcoin, and, yes, it is full of people who are as awful as you can imagine. But, with one click, you can block the entire domain! 12.8k thousand crypto weirdos filtered out in a click. Amazing.
Konrad M. LawsonNov 4, 2022
daelnorwoodNov 4, 2022

Hello #histodon and other folks!
A brief self-intro: I'm a historian of 19th-century American political economy, in the world.

My first book, Trading Freedom, is about the politics of the first century of #USA trade w/ #China. Now I'm investigating the rise of the #businessman as a potent political & cultural identity. I also co-lead a collaborative project looking at the history of slavery and dispossession in Delaware.

I mainly post blind quotes from sources, though. #commonplacing