Will probably go to #ICA23. However, just learned that Canadian visas are taking a very long time due to Covid-19 backlogs. Unfortunately, anyone from de #globalsouth without a previous visa or an american visa won't be able to go. This is sad.
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And this is true particularly to the ones to whom these conferences would provide the greatest benefit: PhD students.
The Guardian UKFirefox and Tumblr join rush to support Mastodon social network - Elon Musk admits banning links to Twitter rival was a mistakeElon Musk’s chaotic autumn at Twitter has produced one clear winner: Mastodon, the open-source social network, has now grown to 2.5m users – triggering a land-grab for space on it from groups including browser makers,... #Mastodon #twitter #theguardian
Darius KazemiReally useful legal guide from the folks at the EFF for people running fediverse servers:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer
(disclosure: I advised them on this work a bit)
User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer
A growing number of people are experimenting with federated alternatives to social media like Mastodon, either by joining an “instance” hosted by someone else or creating their own instance by running the free, open-source software on a server they control. (See more about this movement and joining...
Matt Burgess"As Mastodon, rises in popularity, it faces rising costs, culture shifts—and potential legal risks"
Mastodon Is Hurtling Toward a Tipping Point:
https://www.wired.com/story/mastodon-legal-issues-tipping-point/
Aram SinnreichThis is the beginning of what @Sivavaid would probably call The Googlization of Mastodon.
IMHO, this is the greatest threat to the burgeoning #fediverse — the commercialization of large instances, turned into semi-walled gardens through value added features and services (especially easy on-ramping), and subject to the same BS policies and practices that made Twitter and Meta hellscapes and forced us to flee to FOSSer pastures.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mask-network-acquires-pawoo-net-070000858.html
And still cant edit texts 🙄
Still unsure about how to use Mastodon for content. But finally someone agreed with me- it more like IRC than Twittee 🤣🤣🤣
BrianKrebsTwitter just got a helluva lot less useful for a lot of people, I expect.
It's almost like there's a giant wall going up around Twitter. Where have we seen this script before? Oh yes, Mu*k has gone into full despot and dictator mode.
https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platforms-policy
Today is the day I finally learned what CW means. Sorry everyone.