Some may be interested in a look back to a WELL-style conferencing system in an interactive visualized form that I was exploring in 1999. Would make an interesting pad-based app with dragging for orientation, and pinching and unpinching for zooming/scaling. #visualization #datavisualization #virtualcommunity

Anybody coming up with Mastodon #data #analytic tools...

For instance:
Get a user's comparative toots-replies-boosts stats?
Do something similar for all members of a particular instance?
Who's writing?
Where are all of the boosts for a message coming from?

I'm about as far from a "quant" or coder as you can get, but curious about ways to imagine and describe this new collective community.

#anthropologist #ethnographer #virtualcommunity #justcurious #retiredjournalist

The terminology on #Mastodon is interesting when considering the distinction between physical and #virtual #communities. When I first saw "local timeline", I thought geographically local, but it in fact meant my local #virtualcommunity.

#community #communitystructure #geography #sociology