@evan
I think the academic community -- and the Fediverse -- would be much better served if universities were to collaborate on developing a far more extensive open source platform, combining the federation, fine-grained sharing and access control of Hubzilla with the collaborative, co-presence and publishing capabilities of Nextcloud.
In such a platform Mastodon-like microblogging would represent a subset of the services afforded.
Something like that could change the world.