Hi folks: As I've been exploring Mastodon, it's been fascinating seeing the efforts folks are making to get a whole range of voices visible. This, for instance, is a crowdsourced list of journalists that are at least diversifying their presence outside of Twitter. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13No4yxY-oFrN8PigC2jBWXreFCHWwVRTftwP... Our conversation here is so critical! And it's giving me material to talk with my students about. Cheers and all best thoughts, Meryl J. Meryl Krieger, Ph.D. *she/her/hers* Senior Learning Designer, Arts & Sciences Online Learning, College of Liberal and Professional Studies, University of Pennsylvania Lecturer, College of Liberal and Professional Studies, University of Pennsylvania Senior Associate Faculty, Department of Sociology, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis http://www.linkedin.com/in/merylkrieger http://upenn.academia.edu/merylkrieger On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 10:09 AM Fred Fuchs via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
On 11/7/2022 6:51 AM, Richard Forno via Air-L wrote:
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.)
Sadly this is not uncommon during "regime changes" at Internet tech companies. The new leadership fires far more people than they should've, and then often has to hire some or even many back at a significant salary increase.
On top of that, some of those with good employment prospects may decide to seek better opportunities. So their possibly irreplaceable tech and business practices knowledge is lost forever.
Fred
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On 11/7/2022 6:51 AM, Richard Forno via Air-L 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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