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Will #ScienceTwitter🐦 -> #ScienceMastodon🐘 work?
The response to this was massive & my #Mastodon has gone from a quiet void to a science party in just 3 days!
Many are worried about servers, network effects & losing followers
Follow these tricks to make it work for you! 🧵
The response to this was massive & my #Mastodon has gone from a quiet void to a science party in just 3 days!
Many are worried about servers, network effects & losing followers
Follow these tricks to make it work for you! 🧵
1. Find your friends on #Mastodon 👯👯
If you want your followers to find you, put your #Mastodon handle in your Twitter bio, otherwise this doesn't work!
Go to fedifinder.glitch.me & insert your handles
It will create a csv of #Mastodon handles of who you follow on Twitter
If you want your followers to find you, put your #Mastodon handle in your Twitter bio, otherwise this doesn't work!
Go to fedifinder.glitch.me & insert your handles
It will create a csv of #Mastodon handles of who you follow on Twitter
There's been lots of talk on moving #ScienceTwitter to another platform
As scientists, we should make informed decisions & not accept status quo - so what are the options? I checked out open-source non-profit @joinmastodon
How it works, why it's great & how to get started!🧵
As scientists, we should make informed decisions & not accept status quo - so what are the options? I checked out open-source non-profit @joinmastodon
How it works, why it's great & how to get started!🧵
First, why change? As twitter now belongs to the world's richest person, we have a moment to ask ourselves if this is the right place for us.
From our experience with software and journals, we all agree that open-source community-based solutions are the way forward
2/12
From our experience with software and journals, we all agree that open-source community-based solutions are the way forward
2/12
Twitter is a profit-oriented company whose attention-economy algorithm maximizes time spent on the site - to run ads.
Should this be how we run our science/academia digital townsquare?
#ScienceTwitter has become a super useful community tool - but it could be much better
3/12
Should this be how we run our science/academia digital townsquare?
#ScienceTwitter has become a super useful community tool - but it could be much better
3/12
