Edward L Platt @elplatt@octodon.social
PhD student @ UMSI. Networks, decentralization, civic tech, cats, bad puns. YPSI Arbor SOUP. Past: Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab, i3 Detroit. He/him.
@starbreaker It's interesting to hear accounts of the time. I started editing in 2007, stopped editing regularly in 2009.
@starbreaker There was a very sharp transition. Appears to have been a response to a particular change.
Aaron argues that semi-automated quality control tools caught more new users than vandalism.
Sharp decline in new Wikipedia editors around 2007. What happened?
Aaron Halfaker talking about Wikipedia as a socio-technical system at UMSI. twitter.com/halfak
Testing mastodon -> twitter mirroring
Welcome to mastodon @anjuli and @tzacatzac
Thinking about moving to social.coop. What's the best way to transition between mastodon instances?
Happy Monday evening, mastodon.
Digging through obscure papers to figure out if anyone has already come up with terminology this extremely esoteric network property I'm interested in.
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Happy Sunday, mastodon.
I wrote a thing. "Social Capitalism" https://elplatt.com/social-capitalism
For updates on my projects, talks, and publications: https://tinyletter.com/elplatt
@cwebber I'd be so into a federated MUD. I recently went back to one I used to play and started writing bots for it.
Is there a way to make mastodon posts automatically show up on twitter and/or facebook?
@cwebber Little known fact: Hamilton/Burr duel was actually about Lisp vs C.
Interesting article discussing limitations of distributed web services by the MIT Civic Media: https://www.wired.com/story/decentralized-social-networks-sound-great-too-bad-theyll-never-work/
Responses:
1. Lame clickbait title. I expect more from that team.
2. All users running servers *is* unlikely but it's misleading to imply that anything less is "not working." Success for decentralized services looks like email: hub and spoke model driven by organizations with IT departments who just aren't willing to hand their data and infrastructure over to an outsider.
