Post #2862332
2025-07-13 10:48 UTC
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This is true. Yet, having participated remotely in hybrid conferences, the hitting each other up randomly over some poster or buffet, or purposefully because someone had asked an interesting question, is yet to find its online equivalent. When you're there physically, well, you're gonna talk to people. Attempts at extending these mechanisms to online during the pandemic (e.g. via wonder.me & co) haven't worked because a) when you're home you have other things to do
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@johentsch@hostux.social 2025-07-13 10:48
in the intervals, and b) people in presence are not going to interact with a virtual platform. I think the idea of having it all online starts from the inaccurate idea that conferences are all about listening to each other's talks (that, we can perfectly do online): No, I would claim their main function is the peer interaction, networking, forming collabs, etc. The idea of full inclusion is at odds with real-life interactions in world-wide communities. Both are important! @yaxu@post.lurk.org