Marian Dörk

i stopped cross-posting now.
meet me on the other side:
https://vis.social/@nrchtct

https://vis.social/@nrchtct/109375002359409994

the always-amazing 🐘shannonmattern@saturation.social wrote an open and moving reflection about her time at The New School including candid takes on personal growth, collegial camaraderie and a truckload of institutional disillusionment. a must-read…...

https://vis.social/@nrchtct/109368951914443526

that was quick! just passed 500 followings with the latest import via https://fedifinder.glitch.me/

the great #twitterMigration seems to be in full swing. for people just settling in here a few quick hints on bio blurbs:

🐘 write something…...

https://vis.social/@nrchtct/109368829500246635

the #fediverse is a world in which many worlds fit. even late capitalism has found its cozy corner in https://brands.town/

the directory is pure gold: https://brands.town/directory not entirely clear which accounts are there for parody and which…...

there are instances related to visualization, HCI & digital humanities on the #fediverse, but what about folks into #Urbanism #UrbanDesign #Cycling #WalkableCities #UrbanPlanning #UrbanFutures you ask?

there seems to be a friendly place just for you, too: https://urbanists.social

for folks on http://vis.social following a certain sport event over the next three weeks, please, go easy on sharing your excitement in posts. we're a tad concerned that our little s̶t̶a̶d̶i̶u̶m̶ server might reach capacity too quickly

you can also start with the 2nd step to find the instance where most of your peeps are. but the choice of instance is not that big of a choice as it might sound. the #fediverse is all about connecting across instances. and if you want to move: account portability is built-in

There is no step three!!

#TwitterMigration 🌈

2nd step: once you have an account, you can turn (part of) your flock into a herd with this nifty service:

https://fedifinder.glitch.me/

the 1st step to #joinMastodon is to find an instance. most peeps in my bubble are here:

http://vis.social
http://hci.social
http://openbiblio.social
http://post.lurk.org
http://fedihum.org
http://chaos.social
http://fediscience.org
http://hcommons.social

apropos ‘tipping your server’:

there are three ways to financially support 🐘kristinHenry@http://vis.social running http://vis.social:

https://github.com/sponsors/KristinHenry
https://www.patreon.com/KristinHenry
https://ko-fi.com/artatomic

https://joinmastodon.org/

for your daily brain pickings: Maria Popova—author of https://www.themarginalian.org—is now also very well #fediverse’d as 🐘mariapopova@indieweb.social

it's a bit ironic that birdsite recognizes .social URLs as links, while Mastodon does not seem to bother…

oh and by the way: our lab is now also here 🐘uclab_potsdam@vis.social 🧪

helpful interview (in German) with 🐘matthiaskettemann@mastodon.social about the #TwitterMigration, the way #Mastodon works, and the prospects for #fediverse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czKvD7leIvA

what should the role of universities be on the #fediverse? wondering if hosting instances would be feasible and desirable. does anybody know of any unis already active over here? #followerPower

https://vis.social/@nrchtct/109355250574907392

another #fediverse flashback: in 2007 i was a student volunteer at the international web conference in Banff, Canada (now #theWebConf). that was high noon of web 2.0 and i was about to start my final thesis project. at the internal conference…...

let the purple times roll 💜

FeDiHum https://fedihum.org/ is a brand new instance on the #fediverse devoted to #academicChatter among "researchers, teachers, students, and those interested in the field of #DigitalHumanities" – run by the fine folks at 🐘DHd@https://fedihum.org/

i wonder when we'll reach the point where we consider the #fediverse to be part of basic communication infrastructure as email and the web

https://vis.social/@nrchtct/109332452008068029

no one wants soup stains on a Van Gogh, but shouldn’t museums be glad that a previously considered hard to reach segment of the population deems them relevant enough to voice their concerns and stage the #JustStopOil actions? museums could do so much to…...

admittedly more moving for myself, was the laudatory speech i gave for Hannah Schwan receiving the award for best MA thesis co-advised with 🐘framoriniii@vis.social:

»Intersectional Feminist Data Visualization Archive«

During her… https://vis.social/@nrchtct/109331981418102750

https://vis.social/@nrchtct/109331387469874115

Héla Hecker just gave the keynote at this year's ceremonial certificate handover of #FHPotsdam's design department (called Applaus) and she spoke to us and our most recent alumni about Hannah Arendt's analogy of a revolutionary life to "rain…...

https://vis.social/@nrchtct/109313484448607514