#WienRocks ist ja jetzt seit einiger Zeit in #Wien gehostet.

Eine sogenannte Wien-Wien Situation.

Ankündigung: Helmholtz launcht neuen Mastodon-Server

Mit https://helmholtz.social/ starten wir heute eine Mastodon-Instanz für die institutionelle #Wissenschaftskommunikation der #Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft.

Hintergründe: https://blogs.helmholtz.de/augenspiegel/2022/12/helmholtz-launcht-neuen-mastodon-server/ #Fediversum (hk)

Things I've learned about Mastodon this week:

1. Photo captions are read by screenreaders for people who have impaired vision. The more descriptive you make them, the more people can appreciate your post.

2. Hashtags should be "camel style" which means you capitalize each word in the tag - this enables screen readers to identify different words in the tag,

3. Reblogging boosts posts and favourites do not.

4. Hashtags are way more important here than on the birdsite.

#FediTip

Washington Post will be creating their own instance. They will add #mastodon accounts to journalist profiles.

Institutional #journalism embracing the #fediverse is important.

UPDATE 07.54 AM: WaPo is *discussing* instance, first messaging about this was too definitive. Seeing level of support, hoping they decide in favour [END]

#commodon #journodon @communicationscholars