Hey, if anyone is looking for an academic project re virality on here, you're welcome to look at the propagation of #asstodon (as far as I'm concerned, others would need to opt in too). In Nov 22 I simultaneously saw academics complaining Mdon was too stuffy & formal, & a random post by someone else complaining that looking in #asstodon came up empty. I wound up posting this to poke fun at academics: https://union.place/@inquiline/109426025024471995
from various donkey-posters/donkey-keepers. I have also seen stray comments that in NSFW parts of Mdon, it does indeed have other connotations/uses, but I've never seen these posts.*
Part of my interest here has been seeing how easy/hard it is to make a tag stick-y (implications for organizers/activists trying to gain traction here). Have at it @communicationscholars#commodon#asstodon +
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]
I'm a PhD candidate in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I'm studying Internet culture and am interested in how individual people relate to corporations, governments, etc. through various types of technology.
My dissertation is about how individual people are constructed as "Users" on the internet.