Today was kickoff session of my seminar on #AlternativeSocialMedia at #UniversityHamburg. Course has 145 applications for 30 places 🤯.
Unscientific poll finds most students spent 2-3h daily with social media, basically none spent less than 1h. 3 platforms absolutely dominate (guess which).
We are going to work out problems, possible solutions (or at least alleviating these) in a better design, exploring alternatives and getting your feet wet in the Fediverse. And we are even going to have a guest lecture (thanks @Kudusch)!
Looking forward to the rest of the course!
@spaeth Exciting! 🙂 Love to hear good things from my alma mater.
I imagine you probably won't have time in the semester for a second guest speaker, but if you can ever think of a way for me to help out constructively (maybe something about how open social protocols work and why it matters?), I'd love to come by! Perhaps in a future iteration of the seminar.