academics-on-mastodon
Tusky
academics-on-mastodon | Tusky | |
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23 | 24 | |
890 | 2,384 | |
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7.5 | 9.7 | |
23 days ago | about 15 hours ago | |
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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
academics-on-mastodon
- Trying out mastodon (again). Questions + account & hashtag recommendations.
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For members of "science twitter" who are opposed to Twitter's recently deployed content-wall - what are some alternative platforms that help academics openly share and discuss scientific research?
For those on the fence, but know more about how instances work, this resource may help you pick a relevant one. There is also this Github resource that enlists all academia-based instances.
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If we all knew that Reddit was shutting down entirely in three weeks, what is an alternate service you would suggest for this group to move to?
A list of lists of academics on Mastodon
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Mastodon provides the highest (over 12%) engagement under posts
With this[1] and checking servers like journahost, that'd solve more than half your problems. You can follow hashtags, so follow like #comedy too.
1. https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon
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Good communities to join?
https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon academics on mastodon
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Seeking new csv files to import for Mastodon
I have searched and searched for new csv files to import to follow account groups I might be interested in. I have used this list of csv files as much as I can (Academics on Mastodon: https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon). It seems to me that somewhere someone else must have created available csv files for import of subgroups I might be interested in. Is there any chance anyone here will know where I might be able to find those?
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How to access research resources when not attached to an institution?
Mastodon community might help. I used the list for searching related researchers or scholars on Mastodon. Some of scholars are really active but that depends. Mastodon is a more casual platform than Twitter I think. You might probably network by DM. https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon
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Pros and cons of having academic Twitter?
If you're just getting into microblogging now, consider: https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon
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Highly successful old timers here, what advice would you give a youngster with a lack of direction?
There are a lot of scientists active on Twitter, but Mastodon may be stronger for your purposes because of so many dedicated servers/instances. Idk if there's a neuro server but here's a list of academics on Mastodon so you could look there first. I'm on med-mastodon, which could be a good starting place to make an account if you don't find a neuro server.
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Server stats say www.movetodon.org reached a new record of 49k users yesterday
Not to mention large parts of academia.
https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon
Tusky
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⟳ 4 apps added, 32 updated at f-droid.org
Tusky (version 24.0): A multi account client for the social network Mastodon
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Getting started with Mastodon
For Android, one option is Tusky.
- Tusks: A beautiful Android client for Mastodon
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Mastodon provides the highest (over 12%) engagement under posts
Mastodon itself doesn't, but maybe he's referring to Tusky, a popular FOSS Mastodon client, preventing its users from logging in with an account tied to an alt-right instance (gab and a few others I think).
They used to also filter any content coming from these accounts but I can't it in the code so they must have removed that.
As for the login block itself it's there: https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/blob/01b3cb3a53b1e08ed26e7...
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Multiple Servers on Mastodon App
Tusky manages multiple accounts.
- I rescued mastodon.au - Ask me anything!
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Is it possible to view a list you created in the mobile app?
You can't in the official app, but you can see them in moshidon, megalodon and tusky. Moshidon and megalodon are both forks of the official app with more features. You should try them out :D
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⟳ 1 apps added, 28 updated at f-droid.org
Tusky (version 20.0): A multi account client for the social network Mastodon
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Fosstodon Hub – More Upgrades
I signed onto Fosstodon last week to give Mastodon another try. I found the overall experience to be massively improved (last time I touched it was in 2017) and the recent traction it has gotten puts it well ahead of anything else IMO (I'm also testing out Farcaster and a few other services, but those seem pretty niche/immature in comparison).
While Mastodon is a bit rough around the edges, it has that same sort of excitement to me when I signed onto Twitter back in 2006, and most of those same friends/connections from those early days have been migrating. Based on the numbers floating around, I think it has enough traction now/critical mass to be it's own pretty exciting thing. While a lot of instances will fail, I don't think economic sustainability is actually a showstopper. Patreon, OpenCollective, any number of tools can handle recurrent donations enough to sustain larger instances, and there probably will be some alternative approaches as well. Migrating accounts between Mastodon instances isn't perfect, but is a core built-in feature, so while there's a bit of instance roulette, I don't think it's such a big deal. There are tools like https://fediverse.observer/ that might help for picking. It even has a map view, which is pretty neat: https://fediverse.observer/map
Here's a rough view of ActivityPub growth: https://fediverse.observer/stats
FWIW, I decided early on as I started researching into the current state of the Fediverse/ActivityPub that I should probably run my own instance. There are hosting providers that provide Mastodon hosting (although most of them like Spacebear and Mastohost are oversubscribed), but as I was researching, I decided something like Pleroma or Missykey would be a better fit anyway. There are some forks and I ended up using a fork of Pleroma, Akkoma (since, while a bit involved, it has pretty decent docs for setting up w/ Docker Compose and overall seems like the best-performing of the bunch, and has good support for most Mastodon clients). I was able to repoint my account from the Fosstodon Mastodon instance (which included migrating my followers!) to my new personal Akkoma instance pretty easily (the only wrinkle was setting up webfinger since I decided I wanted my canonical account id to not be a subdomain).
For those looking for a bit of an overview of what the current "Fediverse" landscape looks like, some resources that helped me get started:
* https://fediverse.party/
* https://joinfediverse.wiki/Main_Page
* https://www.paritybit.ca/blog/mastodon-is-dead-long-live-mis...
For clients btw, I'm using Whalebird https://whalebird.social/ and Sengi https://nicolasconstant.github.io/sengi/ on desktop, and Tusky https://tusky.app/ on mobile.
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Clojure Community on Fediverse
The official app is pretty good and cross-platform. I use Tusky on Android, and really like it. A couple of other tech instances are
What are some alternatives?
IceCubesApp - A SwiftUI Mastodon client
Husky - MOVED TO https://git.sr.ht/~captainepoch/husky
tournesol - Free and open source code of the https://tournesol.app platform. Meet the community on Discord https://discord.gg/WvcSG55Bf3
mastodon-android - Official Android app for Mastodon
mastodon_digest - A Python script that aggregates recent popular posts from your Mastodon timeline
Twidere-Android
Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
Lemmy - 🐀 A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse
awesome-mastodon - Curated list of awesome Mastodon-related stuff!
nimiq-mastodon
ipfs - Peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol
peertube-android - Thorium, a PeerTube Android Client