"Mark Zuckerberg called the people who trusted him with their data when he set up Thefacebook at Harvard “dumb fucks.” His extractive business of building intimate profiles of people to exploit for profit has made Facebook a trillion-dollar corporation and Mark a billionaire. So should you trust Threads and federate with it? Sure...." -- Aral Balkan

Move Slowly and Build Bridges, by Robert W. Gehl

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Hey, fedi, I'd like a bit of help. My book (

Move Slowly and Build Bridges, by Robert W. Gehl

) is out now in paperback. Yay! But as an author I have little insight into what that means, beyond the fact that Amazon is shipping it in North America. Folks have let me know the book is on bookshop.org (https://bookshop.org/p/books/move-slowly-and-build-bridges-mastodon-the-fediverse-and-the-struggle-for-democratic-social-media-robert-w-gehl/22541467?ean=9780197776681). What I'd like to know is: where else is it available? I want to collect this info for folks who don't want to buy from Amazon. I will put the info on my website. boosts appreciated!

What if there are no "best practices" when using generative AI for research? What if all use of genAI is inherently harmful? What if I don't want to participate in research using generative AI? These questions seem to be completely off the table now. This feels like 2006 all over again, when everyone everywhere seemingly thought they had to use corporate social media for their professional activities.

Pleased to announce that my book, Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media, is now available online, and will be out in print in a couple weeks!

Move Slowly and Build Bridges, by Robert W. Gehl

That site has more stuff, too -- links to related articles, some notes about how I researched it, and a contact form in case you want to talk about the fediverse with me! (I'd be happy to chat with journalists about it!) #academicChatter #bookstodon #fediverse #mastodon