✨ linguangst ✨ @linguangst@witches.town
phd student, lump of sugar, probable sorceress. research: online communities, harassment, trolling. [she/her]
@oyasumi cool, definitely including both. thanks!
@anarschtroumpf YES, definitely want to talk about what "success"/longevity mean here, and the FOSS stuff too. thank you!
@maloki i used to be! in undergrad (when i started using this handle for everything). are/were you?
@ksunter i'm an information student, so i'll ping you if i come across anyone relevant! lots of tech/games people on toot.cat and witches.town (and some on toot.cafe), but i haven't seen any other explicitly data scientists yet
I'm looking for other data scientists on here and people tooting about data visualizations and the like. Boost me to help me find people? :pray:
I just learn that enby means NB that stands for non-binary. Good to know!
@benhamill @NthTensor yes, and perusing the federated timeline
For those who dont know, the federated timeline displays all the activity from all the people on other instances who are followed by people on your instance.
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It is therefore very good practice to follow as many interesting people from other instances as possible. We are the ropes binding this distributed system together.
@spiderrobotpig the focus of my research is understanding the underlying social issues, e.g. what motivates people to participate in harassing behaviors online in the first place. otherwise, i don't think there is any one tech feature that can't be abused or worked around.
@pseudomichael @riking @nightpool oh wait you're not a witch now i'm confused
@nightpool @riking i follow @pseudomichael, who replied to that tweet. could that be it? (weird reason for it to display in federated, though)
also helpful: any good write-ups you feel have done masto justice
"no, pls don't write that" also extremely valid
since i work in social media research (and i'm pretty well-connected to the tech and social media marketing worlds, by misfortune of my prior career), i'm thinking about writing a blog post to clear up some of the nonsense information being shared about mastodon in pop press this week. what should i be sure to include?
right now i'm thinking: federation/instances, admins and independence, privacy expectations, social norms, usernames/profiles, harassment/abuse, and content warnings/NSFWs.
@spiderrobotpig blocking on twitter is my personal adversary. all it does is hide harassment/abuse from its target
"Why don't you just block" is why we need people who aren't cishet white people in charge of things.
Take that shit to twitter.
@Gargron is it true that muting/blocking won't stop a person's toot from displaying if boosted into your TLs?
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