Alexander L. Hayes @hayesall@qoto.org

There's an Atlantic article in part about our research about online platform migration, including what it means for the #TwitterMigration (and also mentions #AcademicTwitter). Here's a paragraph about the potential challenge for #Mastodon - I'd be curious if folks agree with this. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/11/people-say-theyre-leaving-twitter-are-they-really/671967/

If you've just arrived from the #birdsite , it can sometimes be tricky to find all the people you know from there who've also come over.

I found this to work great:
https://fedifinder.glitch.me/

You add your address to your #Twitter bio, give it the needed authorizations, and it finds and adds your friends.

#TwitterEvacuation #twittermigration

@estebanmonte also I recommend following my #JuliaLang friends @sethaxen, @trappmartin They are core contributors of Turing package.

Also consider following @cscherrer. He’s build a new broader Bayesian inference ecosystem based on Measure Theory.

hey new mastodon peeps. help me brainstorm possibilities for things I can do during my sabbatical :) (constraint: it needs to be something that over the course of a year can make up about half of my salary)

Anecdotally the Matplotlib maintainers were told

"About 15% of arXiv papers use Matplotlib"

Unfortunately the original analysis of this data was lost. We reproduce it here [1].

[1] https://github.com/mrocklin/arxiv-matplotlib

Unlike Twitter, when you 'like' (Favourite) something here, it doesn't share that interaction with your followers.

If you've found a post or a piece of art that you've enjoyed - boost that toot!

I feel like things I say on Twitter are part of my permanent record. Stuff on Slack, not really. Mastodon... I don't know yet which it's more like?

If you're interested in an internship at Apple on the Human-Centered Machine Intelligence team, please check the link below for how to apply -- we have focus areas in Accessibility (Leah Findlater), Vis (@dom), Learning Sciences (@idontreallydo), UI Understanding (@jwnichls), and ML Developer Tools (@barik) … it's an amazing place to work, we're a research team that collaborates closely with software engineering, design, and a bunch of other teams.

https://apple.ent.box.com/v/HCMI-interns-call-2023

If you have suggestions on how to make Mastodon more attractive and help people switch over, please share.
For example, sharing cool content here first and then maybe a few days later on birdapp?

@GaelVaroquaux well said. Like Neal Stephenson heavily implied in The Diamond Age: at some point the fix has to be cultural, not technical.

I am really curious how @briannosek's solution to the collective action problem will work out:
https://nerdculture.de/@briannosek/109263316857415965

I am 100% in. My #NovemberMigration pledge:

1. Post new content only on #Mastodon (provide links on Tw)
2. No new content on Tw (except links to (1))
3. No retweet/reply to any content on Tw other than content related to #TwitterMigration

Like a big social psych experiment in the wild ...

Have you packed your bags and relocated here from Twitter? You might be interested in reading this paper about what happens when communities migrate across platforms. :) https://cmci.colorado.edu/~cafi5706/CSCW2020_MovingAcrossLands.pdf #twittermigration

Musk's $44billion acquisition of Twitter reveals the vanity and dangers of tech. #TwitterMigration

Twitter is an instrument of power. Musk bought it because he was born rich and because we, the privileged tech, are lured by money. Musk is an enemy of free speech and controls communication for his interests.

My first thread here 1/6

Good morning from Seattle, all! I, too, am here for #twittermigration

Haven't left Twitter yet (taking a wait and see on that front) but I definitely wanted to get set up over here, too, in case it goes as poorly as it seems like it will.

Learning that there is also no edit button in realizing that I left off

@emilymbender

An incomplete list of people who recently joined Mastodon in the technology policy or ethical AI/ML space, whom I followed and think you should check out!

Feel encouraged to reply with more suggestions / people I missed!

@KLdivergence
@geomblog
@ruchowdh
@roydanroy
@sherrirose @etchin
@RebekahTweed
@annajobin
@crystaljjlee
@mmakar
@ubiquity75
@ggrill
@evijitghosh
@hpullenblasnik