Erin Kissane

Thinking about books, bones, rocks, sociability, demons, care, and viruses. Co-founded the COVID Tracking Project back in 2020. I'm always like this.

Trying out posting most things for followers only as a way of encouraging more collegial, generative conversations.

Calm Covid newsletter (free, infrequent, low adrenaline) is at https://calmcovid.substack.com

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Last Notes

2023-07-16 16:16:27

Bluesky had a bad week as a company in relation to its community of users but a thing that is totally alive there rn and really not here is Black journalists and writers and internet people having non-101 conversations about rhetoric and networks at full speed without being hit with hundreds of identical replies about not seeing race or being asked to prove the existence of racism.
I hope fedi people who care about this stuff are paying attention and not just smugly writing them off.

2023-07-01 21:28:02

Hey masto, if you’ve been here for more than a few weeks and you really like your instance and have a minute, could you weigh in here and name it and say why you like it? We have new folks coming in and I never know where to point them for real-talk instance recs.
Would love to know whether your instance is open to new people, whether it strictly moderates abuse (racist, misogynist, anti-LGBT, disability-linked), how aggressive its defed policies are, whether it’s technically stable.

2023-06-20 17:59:12

This is more semi-meta, so do what you will with that, but I want to explicitly tie together two conversational threads from yesterday:
1. I think the structure of Mastodon really amps rumors and misinfo because the mechanisms we use elsewhere to pass around and find corrections (visible replies, quote-posts, search) don't work here.
2. Instance admin politics are rarely discussed in a public, easily re-findable place—that, too, fuels the rumor-mill, as we saw re: Meta meeting discussions.