Notices by Andrés Monroy-Hernández (andresmh@hci.social)

@J12t @wearenew_public same here. That said, the problem with Nextdoor is partly about the platform but mostly about the neighbors 😅

@rysiek what are the concerns?

Woah! Someone posted the 1 billionth Scratch project online:
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1000000000

The Scratch online community has come a long way since it started as a master's thesis project!

Here is one of the first mock-ups of the website I did around 2005, inspired Flickr and some other "web 2.0" websites of that era

@cyberlyra @jbigham @ntnsndr do LLMs also forget to unmute? That’s the ultimate Turing test

@jbigham my max number of simultaneous zoom meetings is 3

Princeton continues to dive into the Fediverse! 🐅 ❤️ 🐘

Multiple units across our campus are setting up their own accounts on the brand-new micro.blogs.princeton.edu Mastodon server!

Follow the Center for Information Technology Policy at @citp
and the Department of
Computer Science at @PrincetonCS

Active projects include:

🦫 Capybara. AR app for kids to program interactive characters, share them in physical locations. Like Scratch meets Pokemon Go.

🥡 OpenDeli. Federated system to self-host locally-owned food delivery services. Like Doordash meets Mastodon.

🎪 Popperi. Federated directory of local craft markets to support community-building events. Like Meetup meets Etsy.

🌈 Trans AR tech. AR experiences co-designed with members of the trans community. Collab with UMich, UCI, NU.
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We at @princeton HCI are recruiting people interested in building, designing, and studying Social Computing Systems.

Roles include:
👩🎓 grad students
👩🏽🔬 postdocs
🕵🏼♀️researchers
👩💻engineers

Grad applications due Dec 1!

If you're into the Fediverse, you're likely a good fit.

Examples of the projects we're working are... 🧵
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I’m personally excited to see BlueSky and Threads interface with Mastodon. Decentralization in all its forms has gotten me excited about social media again. I welcome interoperability. Not everything has to lead to an “embrace extend extinguish” situation.

News and updates from our first year of work at the Workers’ Algorithm Observatory https://medium.com/the-workers-algorithm-observatory/fairfare-is-1-and-growing-6e5ae8781477

🗞️Big news: The Driver’s Seat Cooperative is transitioning their tools for gig workers to the @princeton Workers’ Algorithm Observatory we’ve been running.

We’re excited to expand our suite of worker-led technologies.

https://blog.driversseat.co/post/driversseat-wao

We're looking for suggestions for creative subdomains for a Mastodon server at a university.

The main constraint is that the university doesn’t want to let us use a third-level domain like foo.princeton.edu, but they might be okay with foo.bar.princeton.edu.

What would be a good foo.bar subdomain?

Some ideas:
fedi.verse.princeton.edu
activity.pub.princeton.edu

Any other ones?

P.S. Using mastodon in the domain might not be a good long-term idea because the software might change.

We're organizing a small in-person workshop about federated/decentralized social media at Princeton.

https://dsmw.cs.princeton.edu/

We're interested in bringing folks who develop fediverse tech or admins that manage active Mastodon instances. We have some travel funding.

Ping me if interested, and please boost 🚀 to reach more people.

#fediverse

Do you know librarians who have created Mastodon instances?

A librarian at my institution is interested in advocating for creating one. It might be helpful to read about other librarians' experiences doing this or the existence of some other cases managed by libraries.

#fediverse

Not sure why this sign was at a skate park, but made me think of academia 😀

@atomicpoet counter idea: a Mastodon instance only for “notable people.” As long as the people are not notable for their toxicity, it would boost the Fediverse’s visibility and benefit those who miss following them on here.

@jbigham first attempt with the French Dispatch meme

@jbigham corrected with the solo instance and captions

@geomblog @jbigham who would you assign it to? :)

@geomblog @jbigham me either. I think most people are just going by the looks of the actors on this photo