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Robert W. Gehl
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Mastodon: @[email protected]. Bridged account @rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy

Research Chair at York University (Toronto). I mainly use Mastodon, so if you use https://fed.brid.gy/ I will follow you from there
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I would recommend @robertwgehl.org's book, Move Slowly and Build Bridges, about the history of developing the fediverse! moveslowlybuildbridges.com
Move Slowly and Build Bridges, by Robert W. Gehl
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September 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Hey, Christine, happy Saturday. Wishing well to you and yours and, of course, ill to JK Rowling
August 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Here's the chapter overview.
I should note that I wrote the title to chapter 2 ("Techlash: How to Vaporize Elon Musk") a long, long time ago. Nice to see things holding up.
The table of contents for the book Move Slowly and Build Bridges. Introduction: On Alternative Social Media 1. Critical Reverse Engineering: How Mastodon Became a Twitter Alternative 2. Techlash: How to Vaporize Elon Musk 3. The Nonstandard Standard: When ActivityPub Met Mastodon 4. Codes of Conduct 5. Rage and Joy: Playvicious, #Fediblock, the BadSpace, and the Politics of Defederation 6. Paying for It: The Fediverse’s Alternative Economies 7. To Finity and Before: Environmentalist Experiments on the Fediverse 8. Threads Conclusion: Caring for It: Putting the Ethics in Ethical Social Media Epilogue: On Godmonsters, or Looking Backward and Forward at Social Media
March 1, 2025 at 10:48 PM