Dr. Johnathan Flowers

My first post in a while? Literally something I'm taking from BlueSky.

I'm going to start calling ChatGPT spicy autocomplete.

@Are0h@ubiqueros.com Exactly this. Definitely.

I'm not sure this is entirely the case. It could be that the people who stick around don't have the option to leave.

Maybe it is the case that the people who left might not miss the people who stay, or have the privilege to leave without consequence.

@robs@aus.social

This is a question that people keep asking me, given my concern with Twitter and other social media platforms: why not give twitter up?

An easy answer is that I have no need, no intention of giving up the communities that I have formed, that I am part of. I refuse to give up the people that I've met, who themselves aren't willing to leave twitter.

@TransitBiker@urbanists.social

@chrisaldrich@mastodon.social
So, the class was cancelled due to low enrollment and the syllabus is jut sitting on my desktop gathering dust and the like.

I suppose I can post it.

@oblomov@sociale.network @blaine@mastodon.social @bobwyman@mastodon.social @atomicpoet@mastodon.social

It's not the case that the backend should define the content, but that the backend structures the ways in which we can (and should, given that design itself is moral) access the content.

The kinds of filtering choices that we -have- are at issue here, and how those filtering choices shape what kinds of communities, what kinds of circles emerge through our interactions with one another through the platform.

@Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net @rysiek@mstdn.social @bremner@mathstodon.xyz @Studio_Gal@mastodon.social @enkiv2@eldritch.cafe

I did literally write a paper on this.

https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/cepe_proceedings/vol2019/iss1/14/

I think it's buried somewhere in the back. That said, no one wants to pay me to run this as a research project.

(Probably because they know I'm right.)

@ArtistMarciaX@mastodon.art We definitely might have been. I'd recognize that theater anywhere.

This is a good question. Ahmed's "Willful Subjects" and "Living a Feminist Life" are both accessible to non-specialists by design. I think Willful Subjects might be a little harder than Living a Feminist Life because Ahmed takes the time to walk through philosophical accounts of the will.

@ahills@hachyderm.io

I absolutely think movements could use the Fediverse's technical properties to achieve similar visibility, albeit very slowly. The social properties might be much harder given the differing social conventions about how to use the technical properties and the continuity of the fediverse with tech spaces which aren't the most activist friendly.

@slothrop@chaos.social

I get this kind of thing a lot because people think the issues under discussion just vanish because users move around.

If this is the case, how do you explain the fact that these conversations keep happening in different ways every time a new group of users filters in? Shouldn't that suggest that something is up with the environment and its affordances?

@Chanders@sciences.social

The thing of it is that we have no real use case for activism on the fediverse as compared to Twitter, but we have PLENTY of examples of the impediments to activism on the fediverse as demonstrated by the conduct of instance admins and the broader fediverse culture.

I would say that it is less the case that I am limiting my imagination, and more the case of comparing two use cases on platforms by virtue of their cultural and technical structures.

@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange

@ArtistMarciaX@mastodon.art I know EXACTLY where this was taken and what bookstore is being reflected there!

I spent way too much time on that street in my youth.