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Robert W. Gehl<p>The latest FOSS Academic post is short but very, very sweet, because it's the public reveal of the cover for my next book!</p><p><a href="https://fossacademic.tech/2025/06/02/move-slowly-cover.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fossacademic.tech/2025/06/02/m</span><span class="invisible">ove-slowly-cover.html</span></a></p><p>Academic authors don't often get much input into the covers of their books, but for Move Slowly and Build Bridges, I was lucky enough to get Oxford to buy art from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://scholar.social/@CaribenxMarciaX" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>CaribenxMarciaX</span></a></span>. Their work "Untitled no 7" is the basis of the cover. </p><p><a href="https://aoir.social/tags/FOSSAcademic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSSAcademic</span></a> <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a></p>
Robert W. Gehl<p>Latest FOSS Academic:</p><p><a href="https://fossacademic.tech/2025/01/18/makingAlts.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fossacademic.tech/2025/01/18/m</span><span class="invisible">akingAlts.html</span></a></p><p>In which I talk about how state regulations are affecting the development of ActivityPub and the fediverse, and how trying to make a TOS for Loops by using an online service resulted in a surveillance capitalist-friendly document.</p><p><a href="https://aoir.social/tags/Loops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Loops</span></a> <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/ActivityPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/Regulations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Regulations</span></a> <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/FOSSAcademic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSSAcademic</span></a></p>
Robert W. Gehl<p>Latest FOSS Academic: Marp!</p><p><a href="https://fossacademic.tech/2024/12/01/marp.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fossacademic.tech/2024/12/01/m</span><span class="invisible">arp.html</span></a></p><p>In which I discuss a Markdown-based way to make slide shows.</p><p>Thanks to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ubuntu.social/@linuxmatters" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>linuxmatters</span></a></span> for alerting me to the awesomeness that is Marp.</p><p>[Replies to this post will appear as comments on my blog]</p><p><a href="https://aoir.social/tags/FOSSAcademic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSSAcademic</span></a> <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/FALD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FALD</span></a> <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/marp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>marp</span></a></p>
Robert W. Gehl<p>I'll be blogging about this soon, but for now let me gush about MARP, a Markdown-based way to make slideshows:</p><p><a href="https://marp.app/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">marp.app/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>If this works the way I think it will, I will finally be able to say goodbye to LibreOffice Impress (and yet still stay away from Google and Microsoft). YES!</p><p><a href="https://aoir.social/tags/marp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>marp</span></a> <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>markdown</span></a> <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/FOSSAcademic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSSAcademic</span></a></p>
Robert W. Gehl<p>Alternative Social Media (ASM) update is back on my blog!</p><p><a href="https://fossacademic.tech/2024/11/08/ASMupdate.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fossacademic.tech/2024/11/08/A</span><span class="invisible">SMupdate.html</span></a></p><p>What caught my eye this week (besides that whole election thing): a history of fediblock, Mastodon is flatlining, and the Ulysses pact. Featuring posts from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://scholar.social/@CaribenxMarciaX" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>CaribenxMarciaX</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://scholar.social/@jon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jon</span></a></span>, and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://aoir.social/tags/FOSSacademic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSSacademic</span></a> </p><p>[responses to this post will appear as comments on the blog]</p>
Robert W. Gehl<p>Latest <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/FOSSAcademic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSSAcademic</span></a> post: "Maven Ain't So Mavenly":</p><p><a href="https://fossacademic.tech/2024/06/12/Maven.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fossacademic.tech/2024/06/12/M</span><span class="invisible">aven.html</span></a></p><p>In which I argue that <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/Maven" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maven</span></a>, a new social media site, is not only breaking norms of the <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> by <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/scraping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scraping</span></a> without consent -- they're ironically violating their own stated reason for existing in the first place.</p><p>[Responses to this will appear as comments on my blog, unless you set privacy to followers-only or stronger. CWs will work]</p>
Robert W. Gehl<p>Lots of folks have comments on <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a>'s <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/Threads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Threads</span></a> integrating <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/ActivityPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a>, so I thought I'd join the fun. </p><p>Latest <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/FOSSAcademic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSSAcademic</span></a> post: "Thoughts on Threads, or Is Mark Zuckerberg Jesus?"</p><p><a href="https://fossacademic.tech/2023/12/16/ThoughtsThreads.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fossacademic.tech/2023/12/16/T</span><span class="invisible">houghtsThreads.html</span></a></p><p>[replies to this post will appear as comments on the blog, unless you set privacy to followers only or DM. CWs will work]</p>
Robert W. Gehl<p>Latest <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/FOSSAcademic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSSAcademic</span></a> post: I experimented with applied <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a> in my media ethics class, asking them to come up with a <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/CodeOfConduct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CodeOfConduct</span></a> for our experimental <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> instance. The results were really good!</p><p><a href="https://fossacademic.tech/2023/11/22/EthicsAndCOCs.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fossacademic.tech/2023/11/22/E</span><span class="invisible">thicsAndCOCs.html</span></a></p><p>[replies to this post will appear as comments on my blog, unless you set privacy to friends only or DM]</p>
Robert W. Gehl<p>Latest <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/FOSSAcademic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSSAcademic</span></a> blog post: on <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/ActivityPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a>, the Non-Standard Standard.</p><p><a href="https://fossacademic.tech/2023/10/15/APnonStandard.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fossacademic.tech/2023/10/15/A</span><span class="invisible">PnonStandard.html</span></a></p><p>This is based on a presentation I'll be giving at <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/AoIR2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AoIR2023</span></a>. It discusses 4 key ways ActivityPub is not a standard standard.</p><p>Comments welcome! You can comment on it by (publicly) responding to this Mastodon post.</p>
Robert W. Gehl<p>Happy to announce that my next book, tentatively titled "Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media" will be published by Oxford University Press!</p><p>Read more about it, and my process of writing the book, here on <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/FOSSacademic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSSacademic</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://fossacademic.tech/2023/08/17/OxfordUP.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fossacademic.tech/2023/08/17/O</span><span class="invisible">xfordUP.html</span></a></p><p>[Replies to this post will appear as comments on my blog if they are set to public]</p><p><a href="https://aoir.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a></p>
Robert W. Gehl<p>Update on possible <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/AoIR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AoIR</span></a> (Association of Internet Researchers)-hosted instance of Mastodon/Hometown.</p><p>I met with the Executive Committee and they let me document our meeting in my blog:</p><p><a href="https://fossacademic.tech/2022/12/11/AOIR-social.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fossacademic.tech/2022/12/11/A</span><span class="invisible">OIR-social.html</span></a></p><p>TL;DR version is: they're asking the right questions about what it means for an academic organization to run an instance. I wrote this post to share with the fediverse since there may be questions about what internet researchers may intend towards the fedi. </p><p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/FOSSAcademic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSSAcademic</span></a></p>