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The fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can’t ignore
(blogs.lse.ac.uk)
A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).
If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!
Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy
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.
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.
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.