Tag: mastodon

• Digital Scholar Donates $20,000 to Support Knowledge Commons…and Helps Us Reach A Major Milestone!

  Today, the Knowledge Commons team is delighted to share that Digital Scholar has donated $20,000 to supporting KC. We are immensely grateful to the support Digital Scholar has shown us over the years, with the funds donated to our project since 2019 now totalling $172,500. And, this donation is particularly impactful for us this year, […]

• What we learned about managing a Mastodon server in the first year of hcommons.social

  Written by Dimitris Tzouris, Infrastructure Developer for Humanities Commons In November, we celebrated one year from the launch of hcommons.social, our Mastodon instance. As of today, more than two thousand members have registered, with new ones joining daily. Mastodon is a free, non-profit and open source social network and microblogging service that can be self-hosted. […]

• Open Infrastructures and the Future of Knowledge Production, part 2

  In my last post, I unpacked some of the reasons why open infrastructures matter for the future of knowledge production, and I talked a bit about how Humanities Commons and hcommons.social strive to live out their principles of community governance that truly open infrastructure requires. But I ended on a less cheerleadery note: We aren’t […]

• Open Infrastructures and the Future of Knowledge Production, part 1

  I’ve been thinking a good bit lately about the ways that the future of knowledge production depends upon the openness of the infrastructures that support our work. For a lot of people, the word “infrastructure” triggers a yawn reflex, and not without reason. As Deb Chachra points out in her brilliant new book, How Infrastructure […]

• Threads

  Some months back, when Meta first launched Threads and announced its plans to federate with Mastodon (and, one supposes, other Fediverse properties), we polled the membership of hcommons.social to gauge their feelings about whether we should be prepared to block, allow connections to the Threads server, or take a wait-and-see position. Based on the results […]

• Develop Your Digital Presence

  The TL;DR Represent your projects & interests. Whether you’re an independent scholar looking to increase your activity in online communities or a graduate student starting to establish a scholarly presence, it can often be overwhelming to begin building a full picture of your work online. Maybe you have a limited amount of time to create […]

• Support Independent Scholarly Communication Infrastructure This Giving Tuesday

  Want the TL;DR? We’re seeking donations to support our Mastodon server! If you believe this is a worthwhile cause and are in a position to help, we would be hugely grateful for your donation. Academic communities need infrastructure, just as our local communities do. And infrastructure requires investment, which is why this Giving Tuesday we’re […]