Department of Pathology, Corewell Health, Royal Oak, MI.
Department of Anatomical Pathology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore.
Adv Anat Pathol. 2024 Jan 1;31(1):52-57. doi: 10.1097/PAP.0000000000000405. Epub 2023 Jul 24.
Social media use in pathology has continued to grow and become more mainstream among pathologists, trainees, and medical students over the past decade. Twitter has historically been (and still seems to be) a positive platform for the social media pathology community to engage with each other virtually (ie, PathTwitter). However, as a new era of Twitter leadership began to unfold in October 2022, a young platform called "Mastodon" began to gain notice within this community as the hashtag #PathMastodon became prevalent. Founded in 2016 by Eugen Rochko, Mastodon is a decentralized, open-sourced, ads-free platform intended to promote public knowledge in a safe and public manner. When compared with Twitter, however, Mastodon is globally much smaller, and its medical professional server called "Med-Mastodon" is more cumbersome with certain features (eg, tracking analytics and username changes). Nevertheless, this new platform, which looks and feels much like Twitter, has great potential to provide continued medical education and virtual excellence among the social media pathology community. Thus, the purpose of this review is to provide a relevant synopsis of how Mastodon, Med-Mastodon, and #PathMastodon may benefit pathologists, trainees, and medical students who use social media. A qualitative analysis of pertinent peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed materials relative to the topic will be performed. In addition, we will provide a comparison of Mastodon and Twitter, provide example figures of #PathMastodon and related posts, and elaborate on the importance this discussion brings to the social media pathology community.
在过去的十年中，社交媒体在病理学中的使用持续增长，并在病理学家、学员和医学生中变得更加主流。Twitter 历史上（似乎仍然如此）是社交媒体病理学社区进行虚拟互动的（即 PathTwitter）积极平台。然而，随着 2022 年 10 月 Twitter 领导层的新时代开始展开，一个名为“Mastodon”的新平台开始在这个社区中引起关注，因为 #PathMastodon 成为热门话题。Mastodon 由 Eugen Rochko 于 2016 年创立，是一个去中心化、开源、无广告的平台，旨在以安全和公开的方式促进公共知识。然而，与 Twitter 相比，Mastodon 在全球范围内要小得多，其名为“Med-Mastodon”的医疗专业服务器在某些功能（例如跟踪分析和用户名更改）方面更加繁琐。尽管如此，这个看起来和感觉都很像 Twitter 的新平台具有为社交媒体病理学社区提供持续医学教育和虚拟卓越的巨大潜力。因此，本综述的目的是提供有关 Mastodon、Med-Mastodon 和 #PathMastodon 如何使使用社交媒体的病理学家、学员和医学生受益的相关概述。将对与该主题相关的同行评议和非同行评议材料进行定性分析。此外，我们将比较 Mastodon 和 Twitter，提供 #PathMastodon 和相关帖子的示例图片，并详细阐述这一讨论对社交媒体病理学社区的重要性。
