And as background for this, some of the findings from @brianckeegan.com's and my NSF funded work on Twitter-Mastodon migration with @mattnicholson.bsky.social @blakeley.bsky.social & @jojuliz.bsky.social are described here: medium.com/cuinfoscienc...

My collaborators (@brianckeegan.com @mattnicholson.bsky.social @blakeley.bsky.social @jojuliz.bsky.social) & I as part of a broader project replicated the Twitter ethics survey on Mastodon and found that over there this kind of opt-in consent for research was desirable (e.g. at the instance level).

Last week I gave a talk titled "When Data Is People: Ethics, Privacy and Ownership in Research & AI Uses of Public Data" that tied together this research ethics work with generative AI training data and also copyright. Here's one of the final slides.