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    121 days ago

    My question was about the “scientists are not allowed to” part. I’ve never heard to such restrictions, and been in the field for more than a decade.

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      121 days ago

      Any public facing IT system stood up in the higher ed system I am familiar with, requires IT support to be engaged. A part of that process is sending the request through a software review board, department’s IT, centralized IT, and then assigned to a project manager.

      Otherwise, it would be considered a rogue service, and turned off at the edge, and core routers.

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        119 days ago

        Right, but why would a scientist set up a mastodon server within their work place? If I were to do it (and I did set up a diaspora instance back in the day), it would be off my own bat, not on work machines.

        If I wanted my workplace to do it, that would be a different story, and I’d argue for it to be done by the IT team…

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          118 days ago

          Why would a geologist spin up a Mastodon server, period? Or any other kind of social media server?

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            118 days ago

            Because scientists are normal people, and probably a higher proportion of them than normal are tech nerds.

            People don’t have only one interest. The board members of fediscience.org are biosystems scientists and forensic linguists.