Battling link spam, registrations for this instance are no longer open. However, any user at IDF.social can invite you to the instance, so simply mail any IR researcher who you recognize from the public timeline. Sorry about the inconvenience, I wish it were different.

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The "unofficial" Information Retrieval Mastodon Instance.

Goal: Make idf.social a viable and valuable social space for anyone working in Information Retrieval and related scientific research.

Everyone welcome but expect some level of geekiness on the instance and federated timelines.

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