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Hi, I'm a philosopher with a PhD from King's College London, mostly interested in philosophy of mind and metaphysics 🧠
LocationZagreb, Croatia
LanguagesEnglish, Croatian, German
@ginahelfrich I see, that doesn't sound too bad then. I guess I'm just too attached to my old posts haha. Thanks!
@ilmari_ivaska @academicchatter Oh, that's great, reassuring to hear. Thanks!
@nino @academicchatter I echo what has been said above - definitely worth trying. I went through the editorial board of one of the central journals of my field and wrote and short-listed those with research interests in line with mine and wrote an email introducing myself and describing potential common research avenues. I think I contacted 5 people, and everybody replied politely and willing to collaborate. I ended up as a postdoc with one of them, and that was a great experience!
@bitbear @asthargf I hope so too, but FOSS stuff from my experience tends to fare worse than proprietary alternatives. I'm not optimistic. On the bright side, though, maybe Threads and BlueSky adding a bridge to the Fediverse will help make it more popular.
@bitbear @asthargf Absolutely more engagement per follower, miles ahead of Twitter in that respect. Still, like I said, doesn't feel like a major platform yet.

Just the morning garden birds..
No Kites this morning, I missed them.

#nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK

@bitbear It's mainly because I have 3000 followers there, but also because it's still a major and recognisable network where I can find lots of people and have a larger audience. That's why I'm hoping for one of the alternatives to become big, though personally I enjoy using Mastodon the most.

I wonder what the correlation is between:

1. Twitter being the first social network people have made their home, and;
2. How hard it is for them to leave Twitter.

Having been on numerous social platforms since the BBS’s of the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, through USENET and various online forums, leaving Twitter was easy. But it pains me to see how hard it is for so many others to leave, and I wonder why that is.

Boosts appreciated!

#Twitter #TwitterMigration #Online #Home #BoostPlease #SocialMedia #Forum #Usenet #BBS

Twitter was my 1st home; I can’t let it go
4%
Twitter was my 1st home; leaving was easy
11.9%
Twitter is just one of many; leaving is still hard
30.6%
Twitter is just one of many; leaving was easy
53.6%
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Any recommendations for recent academic readings on the #ethics of #journalism in the #digital #age ? I am particular interested in the professional role of journalists in comparison to other "content creators" #philosophy
@rob_models @qruyant Yeah, though I could do that through the archive as well.