While there is a lot of discussion about new Twitter alternatives and the relevance of journalists and other critical groups of users, the potential of university-based Fediverse instances has hardly been addressed. It is high time for universities to get involved in the Fediverse. This is a call to action.
My department is on Mastodon. :)
Lucky you. My department, and the whole university, is now on a path of completely googlefying their services. And it’s a public university!
So… Lucky you.
#envy
My department isn’t very active on it, but I was happy to see it. There are quite a few on there… I know MIT has an unofficial instance.
https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon
This is worth checking out for people in this thread!