Before the holidays, please chime in on a subject that has been flowing in many places and we are very interested in. Can you spare a few moments to share what you are paying attention to?
Given the fading of the service that used to be called Twitter, but more forces at work, we are wanting to get a sense of where the open education community is placing their attention?
Where are you as an individual putting MOST of your social media energy into for open education (or general) interests? Where do you get the most value of connection?
Twitter/X
Facebook
LinkedIn
Mastodon
Bluesky
Threads
Email Lists
Messaging Groups (Whats App, Signal, et al)
Collaboration Spaces (Slack, Teams, Mattermost), et al
Someplace Else (explain in a reply)
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For itās alignment with decentralized openness I had strong hopes for the fediverse, many others have too, and OEGlobal is still going to have a presence there, BUTā¦ we see many spreading to other spaces. Maybe that is just how it goes.
Please expand more on your ideas, thinkings, reactions below.
And there is another level of decision for organizations. I have been tracking āSaying Goodbye to Xā announcements from BCCampus, JISC, SURF, ALT and more.
I still blog (with RSS) from time-to-time. Iām also active on Matrix (a federated open source messaging system) as well. I avoid Slack or MS Teams entirely. Mastodon is my main social network, with other Fediverse apps also featuring (PieFed, PixelFed, and PeerTube, among others). The Fediverse is definitely the way forward for academia. LinkedIn is already fake & useless. BlueSky & Threads is subject to the same structural flaws that Twitter is/was, and will inevitably go the same way.
Indeed Ajita, I realized after I created the poll I left off Instagram.
I have a troubled relationship with the platform, the ties to ads. I recently counted in 22 āpostsā 11 were not photos from my friends, but ads, suggestions, etc. Yet it personally matters for friends there. Iām planning to dial back and focus my photosharing on flickr and pixelfed, which yes, there could have been a category there for those places plus pinterest.
I rarely go to Pinterest, is there much social interaction?
Mostly we are interested to see where the global audience puts their energy. Thanks for your input
And actually, now that I think about it, distributed identity - so we can have a single identity across multiple networks - will be really important, I think. But itās not the sort of thing that can be solved with tech; providers have to agree to allow this.
Thatās true, Stephen, to the extent that social media is governed by āprovidersā. To the extent we do it for ourselves (or our communities, without a profit motive), thereās more latitude.
Not everyone can do this. I have to race to a service as soon as it opens in order to grab the coveted āDownesā name.
As for depending on providers - most every bit of software in the world is written by someone who is not us. Even open source software. We have to depend on the cooperation of enough of these people to make distributed ID a thing.
For the 43% who replied to the poll with āMastodonā Yay. If you want to be part of the OEGlobal Fediverse directory, all you have to do is edit your profile to add/edit your fediverse username (full details) We take also take ones for Threads and Bluesky.
I have created a Mastodon data list you can import to have a List view (shows all posts in a column by the 102 people there) or you can choose to import them all as a āStarter Packā - find out how to get and use these to import into your own account.
