Love how people will write up and publish a full academic paper about scholarly instances on Fedi and completely re-write the history to erase scholar.social, which has been on here since 2017
Dear queers
No matter what you do
No matter how creative you are
No matter how hard you work
There is a straight boy following you around with a giant fucking eraser, ready to tell everyone how he did what you did "first"
Taking bets on how long before a straight boy announces that he's running the Fediverse's "first" academic conference
Anyway that paper about academic Masto instances is fine except that it
* Erases much of the actual history of academic Fedi
* Ignores the actual reasons why marginalized people would want federated social media and instead focuses entirely on the nebulous badness of private ownership of a commons
* Conflates participation of institutions and individuals on Fedi
* Is completely uninformed by the reality of instance admin/mod responsibilities
* Actually no it's pretty bad
fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
@researchfairy also, justifying scraping data by "we were allowed to register bot accounts" 🥴
@researchfairy oh wait I think that's an older mastodon network analysis paper