What I do love about #Mastodon and the greater #Fediverse, by the way, are the personalities. There *is* a culture here.

Other microblogging sites have a sort of algorithmic supremacy going on where you trade personality for a ticket to the internet celebrity lottery. No individualism. You pick your niche from a set deck and you play the FYP slots.

Meanwhile, everyday I run into someone who's like "hey I'm star-cake. I'm a queer carrot farmer. I collect Soviet-era camera lenses." Amazing.

My review of @rwg's new book "Move Slowly and Build Bridges" is now published in Convergence

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13548565251409858

In my draft/notes, I had written "this book slaps and everyone should read it because what is thing I feel... hope? optimism? That's been a long time overdue"

What I actually ended up writing was: "A more just, equitable, and inclusive online world is not only possible, but it is already being created."

#academicChatter #commodon #mastodon #fediverse

My review of @rwg's new book "Move Slowly and Build Bridges" is now published in Convergence

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13548565251409858

In my draft/notes, I had written "this book slaps and everyone should read it because what is thing I feel... hope? optimism? That's been a long time overdue"

What I actually ended up writing was: "A more just, equitable, and inclusive online world is not only possible, but it is already being created."

#academicChatter #commodon #mastodon #fediverse

What I do love about #Mastodon and the greater #Fediverse, by the way, are the personalities. There *is* a culture here.

Other microblogging sites have a sort of algorithmic supremacy going on where you trade personality for a ticket to the internet celebrity lottery. No individualism. You pick your niche from a set deck and you play the FYP slots.

Meanwhile, everyday I run into someone who's like "hey I'm star-cake. I'm a queer carrot farmer. I collect Soviet-era camera lenses." Amazing.