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Chanders, 10 months ago to bluesky

Is there a #Commodon community on #bluesky? Or are there other academic communities there?

Not planning on going there, just genuinely curious. These communities are not here in any great strength after the last few months of 2022. My hunch was always just that they stated on Twitter, but as #Twitter seems increasingly and genuinely non-functional, I do wonder what is going on.

Chanders, 10 months ago

I genuinely miss my academic networks sometimes and I’ve also thought about those networks as an object of inquiry in my own scholarship. Just really curious about what the next few years will be like.

Chanders, 10 months ago

What are you finding @alex ? I know you are active in both places … is it a division of labor where BlueSky is for clowning and shitposting and here is more serious, while Twitter keeps getting hollowed out?

Chanders, 10 months ago to twitter

Seriously though when people use this thing it is literally exactly the same as #twitter, like, 100%. I mean better, but basically the same.

The differences between Mastodon and Twitter are 98% due to the frequency of use.

Chanders, 10 months ago

@seachanger 💯

Chanders, 1 year ago

@KatyPearce @aram @fheinderyckx @ICAHDQ @communicationscholars @Noshir @claesdevreese @ICA_CAT @PolComm

It seems like AOIR must have had a lot of these conversations already, is this correct Aram? Is there a way to do some knowledge transfer w/ ICA at some point?

Chanders, 1 year ago to random

“By comparison, every time I open up Bluesky what I immediately see is a bunch of jokes from my favorite twitter personalities. They’re having fun over there. The people who made Twitter good are all congregating on Bluesky. They’re relaxing and misbehaving. It’s awesome.” -@davekarpf

https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/bluesky-is-just-twitter-without-the

Chanders, 1 year ago

@davekarpf BlueSky is an interesting test of the question of how much of Twitter’s appeal was basically reality TV-esque.

I’d argue that the secret of academic twitter was that it allowed people do vicariously rubberneck the celebs and the political pileups while they pretended to work.

But it’s unclear if BlueSky will do the second thing. Are all our old friends there? Are people nerding out about dumb shit?

Theblueone, 1 year ago to random

New reading material has arrived in the post …

Chanders, 1 year ago

@Theblueone that looks great.

Chanders, 1 year ago to bluesky

Just RTd a bunch of it, but the #bluesky protocol analysis by @sam is really worth a read.

Chanders, 1 year ago

I would add to the analysis by @sam- "I think the fundamental reason why we keep seeing more and more bullshit protocols and projects pop up like this is one fundamental mindset: a refusal to attribute the problems of the modern internet solely to capitalism"- is that a lot of the conversation about "user friendliness" lacks an analysis of the way slick design is used to mask fundamentally regressive infrastructure choices.

https://urbanists.social/@sam/110340918554679060

Chanders, 1 year ago

@stuartelden @geography there’s been a series of depressing “OA in practice” analysis pieces today. As someone without an axe to grind when it comes to OA (I support it but it isn’t a key part of my scholarly identity) I find it all incredibly depressing.

Chanders, 1 year ago to random

Man I didn't get the crypto spam everyone else is talking about, now I feel like a loser.

Chanders, 1 year ago

@spandauAnders give me your blockchains.

Chanders, 1 year ago to random

Nice to spend my birthday trying to get university finance to pay for image bank images already funded with a grant before the deadline for the whole project explodes.

#PIlife

Chanders, 1 year ago

@misc thank you!

RobynCaplan, 1 year ago to random

Because academic twitter has moved on here now:

What do you do if in final copyedits of an article, you find a book chapter that explores a similar concept your article is exploring? Add a sentence? Add a footnote? Scream into the void and pull all of your hair out one-by-one? Contact the author directly? I've been working on this for 5 damn years ugh.

Chanders, 1 year ago

@RobynCaplan also, this isn't an answer to your question, but I was just commiserating with @patyrossini about how academic Mastodon has died 😢

Chanders, 1 year ago

@RobynCaplan @patyrossini <New Jersey voice> man fuck that shit

Chanders, 1 year ago

@natematias @RobynCaplan @patyrossini +1000 as well

On the other point, I was def being a bit melodramatic. But I do think it’s a relevant point (for the pol comm community at least) that if Patricia had asked her lit review questions 6 months ago she’d have been swamped w responses, and this time, crickets.

Also my instance is pretty much a ghost town these days, which wasn’t the case even 2-3 mos ago.

But all that said, I was exaggerating a bit 😉

Chanders, 1 year ago to fediverse

I’m leery of the idea of piling on on this platform, so let me just say that this is in regard to the #mastodon vs #bluesky post that a lot of you are taking about today. Here’s what I think.

The problem with this critique in particular, and the idea of BlueSky in general, is that it is evidence that even the most thoughtful (and radical) thinkers, developers and workers in digital tech have internalized the ideology of SV digital capitalism over the past two decades.

What I mean is this:

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Chanders, 1 year ago

For what it is worth, this is an old old old debate in media and cultural studies, and understanding it is something that folks with a background in cultural studies and technology can contribute to this debate.

To put my cards out on the table, I’m far more on #teamadorno than I was 20 years ago. 🤷🏻‍♂️

But whatever else you take away from this, a technology that truly wants to change the world cannot make “user experience” or even “mass adoption” the metric by which success is judged. /end.

Chanders, 1 year ago

@misc god I’m so out of practice with this, I haven’t posted a thread like this since I left Twitter 😂