Tangential; why is math popular on mastodon like computer science is - but little other subjects? What do physicists use, chemists, mechanical engineers?
Yes, it's on "Mastodon-the-Platform", but this particular post is on a server that literally has the words "maths" in its name.
Shrug ... no idea. Christian pung me back in March 2017 and said:
There's this new social network thing with different servers ... maybe we should make one to focus on Recreational Maths.
We thought for a while, and when we hit on the name (it's his fault ... he came up with it) we figured it had to be done.
But thinking about it ... there's very little "Recreational Physics" or "Recreational Mechanics" or "Recreational Electronics".
There is, I guess, "Recreational Programming" ... but that doesn't feel the same.