Hi folks, I was going to sign up but it’s saying I need to pick a server? Which should I choose? Will I be able to see others if I just pick any server? I don’t want to be unable to find anyone! This is very weird! Thanks, Emma -- Dr Emma L Briant Owner: Maven of Persuasion LLC Fellow at Central European University's Center for Media, Data and Society Associate at University of Cambridge, Center for Financial Reporting & Accountability Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/emmalbriant Website: www.emma-briant.co.uk Author of: *Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change *from Manchester University Press Co-Author of: *Bad News for Refugees* with Prof. Greg Philo and Dr. Pauline Donald from Pluto Press. Sign up for my Newsletter <http://emma-briant.co.uk/sign-up-for-important-updates/>! Follow me on Twitter @emmalbriant "I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is." - Steve Martin
I imagine others will have thoughts as well, or server suggestions, but (because this can be a bit confusing!) the short version is: regardless of what instance you're on, you can still follow anyone across any instance. Your instance largely helps to determine what your feed looks like (and here's a flow chart that helps explain that: https://cybre.ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/000/569/35... ) Many people are choosing to just go to mastodon.social which is the one run by the person who maintains Mastodon. It's a good default if you don't know where else to go, but it won't help curate your feed really. There is also scholar.social but I've heard some mixed things about it, and I'm not sure who's running it. hci.social has a lot of folks from the HCI side of the computer science community. Also there are starting to be some lists to help you find who to follow, e.g. this one of tech policy & society folks: https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv/109257782127322261 Setting up something like this for AOIR might be a good idea! Hope that's helpful. 🙂 [https://cybre.ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/000/569/35...] --- Casey Fiesler Associate Professor Associate Chair for Graduate Studies Department of Information Science University of Colorado Boulder www.caseyfiesler.com<http://www.caseyfiesler.com/> @cfiesler<http://www.twitter.com/cfiesler> ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Dr. Emma Briant via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2022 6:48 AM To: AOIR <Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Mastodon help? Hi folks, I was going to sign up but it’s saying I need to pick a server? Which should I choose? Will I be able to see others if I just pick any server? I don’t want to be unable to find anyone! This is very weird! Thanks, Emma -- Dr Emma L Briant Owner: Maven of Persuasion LLC Fellow at Central European University's Center for Media, Data and Society Associate at University of Cambridge, Center for Financial Reporting & Accountability Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/emmalbriant Website: www.emma-briant.co.uk<http://www.emma-briant.co.uk> Author of: *Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change *from Manchester University Press Co-Author of: *Bad News for Refugees* with Prof. Greg Philo and Dr. Pauline Donald from Pluto Press. Sign up for my Newsletter <http://emma-briant.co.uk/sign-up-for-important-updates/>! Follow me on Twitter @emmalbriant "I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is." - Steve Martin _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://secure-web.cisco.com/17Da0LCjBh6aad1LO34dkYuTUtdsDBi2ydvQE0oRVf3mbqPS... Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
Thank you that’s very helpful!!! I am sorted now and I appreciate the reply!!! Emma On Tue, 1 Nov 2022 at 08:59, Casey Fiesler <Casey.Fiesler@colorado.edu> wrote:
I imagine others will have thoughts as well, or server suggestions, but (because this can be a bit confusing!) the short version is: regardless of what instance you're on, you can still follow anyone across any instance. Your instance largely helps to determine what your feed looks like (and here's a flow chart that helps explain that: https://cybre.ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/000/569/35... )
Many people are choosing to just go to mastodon.social which is the one run by the person who maintains Mastodon. It's a good default if you don't know where else to go, but it won't help curate your feed really.
There is also scholar.social but I've heard some mixed things about it, and I'm not sure who's running it.
hci.social has a lot of folks from the HCI side of the computer science community.
Also there are starting to be some lists to help you find who to follow, e.g. this one of tech policy & society folks: https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv/109257782127322261
Setting up something like this for AOIR might be a good idea!
Hope that's helpful. 🙂
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*Casey Fiesler*
Associate Professor
Associate Chair for Graduate Studies
Department of Information Science
University of Colorado Boulder
www.caseyfiesler.com
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You can pick any one and try it out. Mastodon.social seems to be the most popular right now. You can change server later if you don’t like the one you’re on. Mathias @Klangable@mastodon.social Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Dr. Emma Briant via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2022 8:48:52 AM To: AOIR <Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Mastodon help? Hi folks, I was going to sign up but it’s saying I need to pick a server? Which should I choose? Will I be able to see others if I just pick any server? I don’t want to be unable to find anyone! This is very weird! Thanks, Emma -- Dr Emma L Briant Owner: Maven of Persuasion LLC Fellow at Central European University's Center for Media, Data and Society Associate at University of Cambridge, Center for Financial Reporting & Accountability Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/emmalbriant Website: www.emma-briant.co.uk<http://www.emma-briant.co.uk> Author of: *Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change *from Manchester University Press Co-Author of: *Bad News for Refugees* with Prof. Greg Philo and Dr. Pauline Donald from Pluto Press. Sign up for my Newsletter <http://emma-briant.co.uk/sign-up-for-important-updates/>! Follow me on Twitter @emmalbriant "I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is." - Steve Martin _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
If you choose a less popular server you will avoid processing delays and make it easier on the mastodon founder Eugen Rochko who is struggling to maintain the mastodon.social server. That said, mastodon.social seems to be holding up reasonably well even with thousands of new users joining. Elena @erazlogo@mastodon.social <erazlogo@mastodon.social> On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 9:51 AM Mathias Klang via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
You can pick any one and try it out. Mastodon.social seems to be the most popular right now. You can change server later if you don’t like the one you’re on. Mathias @Klangable@mastodon.social
Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Dr. Emma Briant via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2022 8:48:52 AM To: AOIR <Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Mastodon help?
Hi folks, I was going to sign up but it’s saying I need to pick a server? Which should I choose? Will I be able to see others if I just pick any server? I don’t want to be unable to find anyone! This is very weird! Thanks, Emma -- Dr Emma L Briant
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Mathias Klang