the always-amazing 🐘shannonmattern@saturation.social wrote an open and moving reflection about her time at The New School including candid takes on personal growth, collegial camaraderie and a truckload of institutional disillusionment. a must-read…...
20.11.2022 07:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Fedifinder
Fediverse accounts of your X/Twitter followings
that was quick! just passed 500 followings with the latest import via https://fedifinder.glitch.me/
the great #twitterMigration seems to be in full swing. for people just settling in here a few quick hints on bio blurbs:
🐘 write something…...
19.11.2022 06:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Brands Town
Brands Town is the first ever Mastodon Instance dedicated...
the #fediverse is a world in which many worlds fit. even late capitalism has found its cozy corner in https://brands.town/
the directory is pure gold: https://brands.town/directory not entirely clear which accounts are there for parody and which…...
19.11.2022 05:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Urbanists.Social
We're a server for people who like bikes, transit, and wa...
there are instances related to visualization, HCI & digital humanities on the #fediverse, but what about folks into #Urbanism #UrbanDesign #Cycling #WalkableCities #UrbanPlanning #UrbanFutures you ask?
there seems to be a friendly place just for you, too: https://urbanists.social
18.11.2022 14:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
vis.social
vis.social is a community for creative people, especially...
for folks on http://vis.social following a certain sport event over the next three weeks, please, go easy on sharing your excitement in posts. we're a tad concerned that our little s̶t̶a̶d̶i̶u̶m̶ server might reach capacity too quickly
18.11.2022 12:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
you can also start with the 2nd step to find the instance where most of your peeps are. but the choice of instance is not that big of a choice as it might sound. the #fediverse is all about connecting across instances. and if you want to move: account portability is built-in
18.11.2022 07:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
There is no step three!!
#TwitterMigration 🌈
18.11.2022 07:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fedifinder
Fediverse accounts of your X/Twitter followings
2nd step: once you have an account, you can turn (part of) your flock into a herd with this nifty service:
https://fedifinder.glitch.me/
18.11.2022 07:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
vis.social
vis.social is a community for creative people, especially...
the 1st step to #joinMastodon is to find an instance. most peeps in my bubble are here:
http://vis.social
http://hci.social
http://openbiblio.social
http://post.lurk.org
http://fedihum.org
http://chaos.social
http://fediscience.org
http://hcommons.social
18.11.2022 07:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
vis.social
vis.social is a community for creative people, especially...
apropos ‘tipping your server’:
there are three ways to financially support 🐘kristinHenry@http://vis.social running http://vis.social:
https://github.com/sponsors/KristinHenry
https://www.patreon.com/KristinHenry
https://ko-fi.com/artatomic
18.11.2022 07:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
for your daily brain pickings: Maria Popova—author of https://www.themarginalian.org—is now also very well #fediverse’d as 🐘mariapopova@indieweb.social
17.11.2022 18:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
it's a bit ironic that birdsite recognizes .social URLs as links, while Mastodon does not seem to bother…
oh and by the way: our lab is now also here 🐘uclab_potsdam@vis.social 🧪
17.11.2022 14:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
helpful interview (in German) with 🐘matthiaskettemann@mastodon.social about the #TwitterMigration, the way #Mastodon works, and the prospects for #fediverse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czKvD7leIvA
17.11.2022 08:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
what should the role of universities be on the #fediverse? wondering if hosting instances would be feasible and desirable. does anybody know of any unis already active over here? #followerPower
17.11.2022 06:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
another #fediverse flashback: in 2007 i was a student volunteer at the international web conference in Banff, Canada (now #theWebConf). that was high noon of web 2.0 and i was about to start my final thesis project. at the internal conference…...
16.11.2022 20:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
let the purple times roll 💜
15.11.2022 05:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
FeDiHum
[EN] A community for Digital Humanities aficionados. \n [...
FeDiHum https://fedihum.org/ is a brand new instance on the #fediverse devoted to #academicChatter among "researchers, teachers, students, and those interested in the field of #DigitalHumanities" – run by the fine folks at 🐘DHd@https://fedihum.org/
14.11.2022 13:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
i wonder when we'll reach the point where we consider the #fediverse to be part of basic communication infrastructure as email and the web
13.11.2022 14:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
no one wants soup stains on a Van Gogh, but shouldn’t museums be glad that a previously considered hard to reach segment of the population deems them relevant enough to voice their concerns and stage the #JustStopOil actions? museums could do so much to…...
12.11.2022 19:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Marian Dörk (@nrchtct@vis.social)
admittedly more moving for myself, was the laudatory spee...
admittedly more moving for myself, was the laudatory speech i gave for Hannah Schwan receiving the award for best MA thesis co-advised with 🐘framoriniii@vis.social:
»Intersectional Feminist Data Visualization Archive«
During her… https://vis.social/@nrchtct/109331981418102750
12.11.2022 17:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Héla Hecker just gave the keynote at this year's ceremonial certificate handover of #FHPotsdam's design department (called Applaus) and she spoke to us and our most recent alumni about Hannah Arendt's analogy of a revolutionary life to "rain…...
12.11.2022 14:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
