Finding connectors in Mastodon
Summary
This week as part of the Personal Knowledge Mastery course Harold challenged us to identify some ‘Connectors’ on Mastodon and consider their posting habits. Although connectors are defined by their behaviour, in that they join up those who seek knowledge with those who share it, it was suggested that we look at individuals who had a high ratio of follwers to followed as a starting point. This is typical for accounts representing applications or big organisations, or for individuals such as or who are promoting content from elsewhere • “just famous” - for example and have extremely low toot counts, which suggests these accounts are still “dipping their toes into the water” with Mastodon, the high follower numbers are reflective of the follower numbers they had on Twitter, and more general fame. I think that is born out by what I found at the top of my Follows list, accounts with extreme that I arbitrarily classifed as either Broadcasters or Just Famous, neither of which are much use in a knowledge network. Although someone with more skills and time might pull off some amazing semantic or topological study, in pragmatic terms I am pretty happy with my ad hoc observation that Connectors seem to be “balanced”, reflected by posts that show a good mixture of: What do you think?