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The fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can’t ignore (blogs.lse.ac.uk)

submitted 10 months ago by grue@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 56 points 10 months ago

I see mastodon as an opportunity for the education community in particular to take back the public forum they had before twatter went to shit.

IMO the best outcome for everyone is universities offering hosted mastodon service to their students and faculty the same way they offer hosted email. That makes Twitter-style discussion possible in the academic sphere without the profit-motivated problems that traditional social media is saddled with.

[-] Emotional_Series7814@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Genuine question, as a non-Twitter user, what was Twitter-style discussion that held value like? I only ever heard about it being a quick source for certain official outlets to broadcast to others (which does have value but that's not discussion), a place for political fighting and harassment, and about how you weren't able to have nuanced discussions within the small character limit.

I know one advantage of Mastodon is that the character limit is much higher.

[-] Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 3 points 10 months ago

I've been on Mastodon (but not twitter) for a little while and I wonder the same thing. I basically saw no interesting discussion, just "microblogs" and many that's just how it is.