Computery person who works at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
I've been collecting reports from Mastodon instance operators as they cope with the #TwitterMigration: https://dltj.org/article/mastodon-instance-reports
Starting with reports from @chad (Mastodon Canada), @nova (Hachyderm), and @aurynn (Cloud Island, New Zealand).
Learning lots. If you know of other reports, please @-tag me and I'll add them to the list.
Hello: has any scientist on here abandoned Twitter for Mastodon entirely? I’m looking to speak to you for a story I’m writing
We're hiring! Two positions on our Ethical Web and Data Architectures project (https://ewada.ox.ac.uk/)
Senior Research Associate: a lead designer and developer for the core technical platforms of the EWADA project, including working within our technical team contributing to the Social Linked Data OS (SOLID OS). Anticipating around 60% software development and 40% Research. https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/2113-full.html
Research Assistant: #InteractionDesign, #DataGovernance, #AIEthics
https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/2112-full.html
RT @Gareth_Tyson@twitter.com
A few new Mastodon observations🧵 Seems Musk’s activities continue to create spikes in #Mastodon discussions on Twitter. We’ve spotted 144k #Mastodon handles announced on Twitter, with 89k people using the exact same username that they used on twitter. [1/4]
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Gareth_Tyson/status/1596073764344602624
We're currently accepting submissions for an OSNEM special issue on decentralized social networks (e.g. #Mastodon, #Pleroma). Paper submission deadline is 15th January! https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/online-social-networks-and-media/about/call-for-papers#special-issue-on-decentralized-online-social-networks
Almost 180k new users joined #mastodon yesterday, a new record. This third #twitterMigration wave happened after Musk's Twitter 2.0 ultimatum to #Twitter workers. Each wave is stronger than the previous one. Here is my updated plot showing the three consecutive waves.
I don't want to just be posting about numbers like a clock, but the 2 million mark of monthly active users across the network is a pretty big deal. This is going big numbers! Shout out to all the server operators who are absorbing this wave.
