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RE: https://social.edu.nl/@Bibliothecaris/116560693849494475
"Practice what you preach" was our motto when we at @Bibliothecaris left X for #Mastodon and switched to #PeerTube. And yet, we're a university library that's still on Instagram, because it's where students are.
We want to leave, but then what?
My colleague Josca and I wrote about this dilemma. https://www.rug.nl/library/open-access/blog/a-university-library-on-instagram-we-want-to-leave-but-then-what
@babetteknauer @Bibliothecaris
As a university student, though admittedly one already on the Fediverse - I deeply resent that my University is forcing ME to use Google, Microsoft, YOUTUBE (ffs) and LinkedIn, rather than communicating professionally and properly under their own banner and investing in the expertise and ownership of their own tools and materials.
Thinking that Instagram is required because "that's where students are" is backwards. Institutions should be leading, not following.
@babetteknauer @Bibliothecaris
As a university student, though admittedly one already on the Fediverse - I deeply resent that my University is forcing ME to use Google, Microsoft, YOUTUBE (ffs) and LinkedIn, rather than communicating professionally and properly under their own banner and investing in the expertise and ownership of their own tools and materials.
Thinking that Instagram is required because "that's where students are" is backwards. Institutions should be leading, not following.
@babetteknauer @Bibliothecaris
The one exception I could indulge is external marketing, trying to recruit potential students, and convert to students.
But once someone is a student of a given institution, they should be using a web browser to access the institution's services via the institution's web site at a sovereign domain. Allowing them to *expect* the institution, administrators or professors are available and responsive on a corporate 3rd-party advertising site is a major mistake.
Hi @babetteknauer @Bibliothecaris
the https://IndieWeb.net/POSSE publishing strategy may help resolve the dilemma. #POSSE
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