Hello all, Very interesting discussion, thanks for the insights. Personally, I am not concerned about an intentional shutdown of academic twitter more than a defacto shutdown of the voices who make it diverse and interesting. It sounds like we can expect a loss of visibility of any tweet from someone who isn't paying $7.99/month for a blue check, which might mean losing visibility of a lot of academics and voices from civil society and low- and middle-income countries. Second there's an ethical consumerism question - I personally would have a hard time justifying paying that money to a company that had just fired its human rights and algorithmic bias teams, as well as apparently most of the staff in Africa and Asia. Thirdly, there's the prospect of a Twitter that may become increasingly hostile to women and people of color - like it wasn't already - but even more so, given that the new approach to content moderation is apparently going to be to assume that everyone who pays $8 a month will not engage in hate speech. That's an assumption not clearly grounded in evidence... Let's see how it goes - if this results in a de facto breakup of big tech in favor of smaller spaces, maybe that would be healthier in the long run. I look forward to learning about and experimenting with Mastodon... best Meg On Mon, 7 Nov 2022 at 14:47, Richard Forno via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
It's not Musk's views per se that's driven me from Twitter, but that's a major reason, sure.
I have a hard time *relying* on a communications platform run by a company now fully engaged in the proverbial "move fast, break things" mentality based on whatever singular whims or rage cycle its owner is in at the time a decision is made. To wit: They are now asking people just fired to come back, b/c nobody knew they were integral to the features Musk wanted to develop. (Were it me, I'd say sure, but double my salary.) He's also reversed other polices and views that he preached -- he was against permabans until Kathy Gifford parodied him over the weekend, so she's banned. He's also said other people not 'clearly identifying' as parody accounts would be perma-banned. That's a far cry from his views about how the company handled other perma-bans in recent years. The entire company -- and platform -- now feels rather unstable in many ways, and I feel sorry for the many serfs still there who will endure such chaos .... and it's only been a week!
Heck, if I wanted to interact on a platform conducting a perpetual beta test[1], I'd use something from Google.
-- rick
[1] either technical or managerial
On 7 Nov 2022, at 3:06, Andrew Lowenthal via Air-L wrote:
Wonderful to see so many people (re)embracing open source/non-corporate social media etc. Ultimately alternatives that don't place us at the whim of one oligarch or the other are the best solution.
One question however - the thrust of the Musk criticism is that he will be too libertarian. With that in mind, where does the assumption come from that he will shut off access to academic twitter? Has there been a statement? It would seem to go against his anti-censorship ethos. Or is it more that it would not be in his interest to serve an overwhelmingly left-wing academia?
Anything tangible as to known intentions of already concluded Twitter actions would be helpful.
Thanks, Andrew
On 11/7/22 01:28, Paul Levinson via Air-L wrote:
Just followed ISOC on Mastodon -- thanks!
-- PL
On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 7:19 PM Joly MacFie <joly@punkcast.com> wrote:
Not that you don't see enough of them already, but ISOC LIVE announces go out at @jolynyc@mastodon.social
I'm interested to see if EM messes with Twitter live (ex-Periscope) which I quite like.
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