Please boost
Which #universities are on #Mastodon / Fediverse?
Welche #Universitäten sind im #Fediverse?
Official:
• @unihohenheim Uni #Hohenheim, #Germany
• @unijena Uni #Jena, Germany
Own server:
• https://mastodon.utwente.nl/about @utwente #UTwente, #Netherlands
• https://metu.life/about/ @Tuan #Metu, #Turkey
• https://mastodon.mit.edu/about @maxj @dukhovni #MIT, #USA
• https://mastodon.ocf.berkeley.edu/about @staff UC #Berkeley, USA
Students’ Committee:
• @astatu #AStA #TUBerlin #Berlin, Germany.
Any missing?
Also the #German #university #Freiburg just opened an official #Mastodon / #Fediverse account:
• @unifreiburg #UniFreiburg, #Germany
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@unihohenheim @unijena @utwente @Tuan @maxj @dukhovni @staff @astatu
Another #German #university joined today #Mastodon / #Fediverse with an official account:
• @Medienwirtschaft_HdM Hochschule der Medien #Stuttgart (#HdM), Studiengang #Medienwirtschaft, #Germany
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@unifreiburg @unihohenheim @unijena @utwente @Tuan @maxj @dukhovni @staff @astatu
@gerald_leppert
Does this count? https://mastodon.acc.umu.se/about/more (Academic Computer Club of Umeå University)
@gerald_leppert https://idf.social is a server for researchers information retrieval
Groeten @djoerd, do you mean: a server for researchers in information retrieval? Or for researcher's information retrieval? (The about page makes a real effort not to reveal much.)
We maintain a list of fediverse servers in the real of research and would like to add this one with the right description. https://fediscience.org/server-list.html
Will add that the server is invitation only if that is the default state for a longer time.
We made a list with Mastodon servers in the realm of science and academia.
https://fediscience.org/server-list.html
Some time ago I wrote to (almost) all admins of these instances whether we could do something to promote more university servers, but did not get much response. One idea was that it may be easier to start at the department level. Using it for homework is a way to ensure people use it.
@gerald_leppert @unihohenheim @unijena @utwente @Tuan @maxj @dukhovni @staff @astatu
Many of these servers are maintained as private initiatives.
It would be much better when universities would host them and give employees and students a Mastodon account like they give everyone a mail account.
But that is also harder to pull off.
@gerald_leppert @unihohenheim @unijena @utwente @Tuan @maxj @dukhovni @staff @astatu
@VictorVenema
I asked my peers at #Poul why Polimi.it didn't have one. They answered me that a reason may be that it is difficoult to ban people from dirtying istitutional accounts.
It's reassuring to know that many of those servers are (laudable) private initiatives @gerald_leppert @unihohenheim @unijena @utwente @Tuan @maxj @dukhovni @staff @astatu
Moderation decisions are hard and people not willing to take responsibility is one of the plagues of humanity. The moderation should also not be done by the computation center; they should just set up the server.
Would moderation be a good for the library? They are the experts in curation and applying rules about the messy world outside neutrally. 1/
#university #academia #instance
@paoloredaelli @gerald_leppert @unihohenheim @unijena @utwente @Tuan @maxj @dukhovni @staff @astatu
Once a server becomes important for university communications, having a random third person hosting it no longer sounds that desirable.
If a problem is people inside trashing the reputation of the institution (which they are allowed to do in the scientific literature), then we would need an additional moderation option of being able to block some people's posts from going outside. 2/2
@paoloredaelli @gerald_leppert @unihohenheim @unijena @utwente @Tuan @maxj @dukhovni @staff @astatu
@gerald_leppert Die Konferenz der Informatik-Fachschaften (KIF) hat auch nen eigenen Server: https://toot.kif.rocks/about (Gibt aber keinen "Sprecher"-Account oder so).
@gerald_leppert Not strictly, but still: https://iztasocial.site - discussions about psychology for professors of SUAyED Psicología university of Mexico
@gerald_leppert
Are you by any chance planning to create some kind of infographics out of this? If you do, please, share it! I was about to do it myself, after listening to recent second webinar "for Administrations" where one participant from EDPS (I think) said that officials need persuasion to come over here - like impressive user numbers... We don't have those, but I think nice infographics will help a lot for future presentations! Pictures with data work better than lists of links 🙃
@gerald_leppert @Gargron The student society @fem at #TUIlmenau operates its own Instance https://fem.social. Although it is not an official part of the university.
https://mastodon.oeru.org/about
#matrix isn't part of the fediverse like mastodon, peertube etc.
But it is a federated protocol on the other hand there's probably a working bridge for it.
https://kif.rocks contains some german speaking compsci student councils
@gerald_leppert
my bad, this is the correct mastodon url:
https://toot.kif.rocks/explore
@gerald_leppert @unihohenheim @unijena @utwente @Tuan @maxj @dukhovni @staff @astatu
I started a poll about university members in the Fediverse:
https://social.anoxinon.de/web/statuses/106172928020360057
It would be great if it was heavily boosted.
#Mastodon instances aiming at #universities, #students #scholars #academics #researchers #scientists:
• https://fediscience.org for publishing scientists (from #PhDstudent to #professor) & researchers outside of #academia
• https://scicomm.xyz for scientists, #science students, #communicators & anyone with rational mindset
• https://scholar.social for researchers, students, #librarians, #archivists, high schoolers, #educators, journal #editors, #researchassistants, professors, #academia