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New activity in Dreamwidth Town
Dec. 18th, 2022 09:26 pmI see some familiar names popping up here!
The Twitter exodus is making me realize that for many of these people, this is their first time fleeing a collapsing social media platform. I've done it a lot of times! This, for instance, is the reincarnation of a LiveJournal, which technically is still there though I haven't posted anything to it in years.
I have a new presence on Mastodon, at mathstodon.xyz/@mattmcirvin . I'm certainly not going away from here, but that place has the feel, for me, of the vanished Google+ science/mathematics community, which was a nice place in some ways.
The Mathstodon instance has the very special property that it supports LaTeX mathematics markup in posts, but unfortunately you can only see it rendered if you view the posts through that instance (or another that supports it, but there are not many). Still, this is fantastic for certain very geeky purposes, and so far I've mostly posted about mathematics there.
Since Mastodon has a broadly Twitter-like structure with a 500-character limit on posts, this Dreamwidth account will still be useful for longer-form writing, which is mostly what I use it for already.
The Twitter exodus is making me realize that for many of these people, this is their first time fleeing a collapsing social media platform. I've done it a lot of times! This, for instance, is the reincarnation of a LiveJournal, which technically is still there though I haven't posted anything to it in years.
I have a new presence on Mastodon, at mathstodon.xyz/@mattmcirvin . I'm certainly not going away from here, but that place has the feel, for me, of the vanished Google+ science/mathematics community, which was a nice place in some ways.
The Mathstodon instance has the very special property that it supports LaTeX mathematics markup in posts, but unfortunately you can only see it rendered if you view the posts through that instance (or another that supports it, but there are not many). Still, this is fantastic for certain very geeky purposes, and so far I've mostly posted about mathematics there.
Since Mastodon has a broadly Twitter-like structure with a 500-character limit on posts, this Dreamwidth account will still be useful for longer-form writing, which is mostly what I use it for already.