@Tekk@lukemartell IceCubes is just an app that lets you connect to Mastodon. Pixelfed, Bookwyrm, Lemmy, and others are other Fediverse platforms like Mastodon. Mastodon is the most popular cause its been around for a while and is most like Twitter and has the most people (for now)
@lukemartell@TechDesk Education and scientific organizations should have their own Mastodon servers now with websites that list their profiles for verification with the WebFinger protocol. That would make them discoverable so peer review and discussion can continue without interference.
@lukemartell I wonder when accounts or, better yet, instances will be open at least by large research and technology centers and projects #ESA#EOSC#NASA
I expect that many instances like that will be private for members only (#EU one also does this) since it is not actually restricting their immersion in #fediverse.
In #switzerland educational institutions are supported by #switch who I could imagine to host a service.
And I keep hoping that some federated servers will come up in #EOSC marketplace.
Also, different NRENs and RRENs, including the pan-European R&E Network @geant for which I work have now opened Mastodon profiles (e.g. @DFN and @nordunet)
@lmarino
that's interesting, I suppose this sort of network can certainly grow bottom-up, it does not need to start from #EOSC. I wonder, why don't they register in #EOSC marketplace for discoverability?
@SURF 's Mastodon pilot is indeed still in the pilot stage, so I suspect that similar considerations might be made at the end of the pilot period when they will evaluate and decide on any further service development.
Nice to hear about #gitlab, I didn't know about the latest developments!
I think it should be a lot less controversial for an organization to host a "read-only" (closed accounts, not subscribing to federation only publishing) #mastodon instance than an official account on #twitter, #youtube , etc which may end up treated unfortunately.
Such a #mastodon instance is a lot closer to an email server, RSS feed, or just a web-site.
But with ActivityPub it uses to publish content, it is just can be seen by a user just as a "normal" social network.
I'm also not aware of open academic #peertube servers, but I would be interested in knowing more.
Remaining in the NREN ecosystem, I know that the French NREN @renater publishes the recordings of its conference Journées RESeaux (JRES) on https://replay.jres.org/ which is powered by #PeerTube
Research is clearly engaged with social networks, and I am not sure it is sustainable to keep using #youtube (who knows when something will happen to it, like it happened to #twitter .
State actors in Germany (e.g. @BMWK) and Netherland (@beheerder) are getting some pilot activities.
Can I ask what is the framework in which #EUVoice is setup as the official ActivityPub platform of EU institutions?
Even if it is not directly related to EU research and innovation agenda, maybe it can be used as an example to motivate further developments in this direction, used in grant proposals for #EU funding especially in relation to #EOSC.
@lukemartell I would say a lot more have gone to Threads than Mastodon. At least those among my circle. The article mentions Bluesky and TikTok...but I highly doubt that's the direction most science communities are currently going. Of course plenty are still on Twitter.
@bryanruby maybe, I was surprised Mastodon came top, although this was a survey of 9000. Of course, Threads is not available in the EU so that limits its spread.
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