Linking ORCID
When I tried to link my orcid, I got an error. After reporting the issue in the matrix room, @mayel@bonfire.cafe and @ivan@bonfire.cafe almost immediately fixed the issue.
Once the issue was sorted, linking my orcid was as straightforward as with any other service using orcid. Not only that, but it populated my profile with very interesting data for #academics: a list of current and former institutions where I work/have worked, my most recent publication, the topics I write about and publication types.
I find this implementation to be very neat and useful for the use case of open science, so kudos to @Bonfire@bonfire.cafe for this great idea. I particularly love how the last publication is displayed, showing if it's open access, and links to the article and to the PDF version. Amazing! 🎉 (probably, I'd prefer to choose the publication I want to show there, but the last one is a good default criteria, so this is me being picky)
Linking other Fediverse accounts
Adding other profiles from the #fediverse was extremely easy: just adding the handle and they are shown along with their avatars in the profile.
I tried with adding #mastodon and #pixelfed accounts and both worked great.
My only concern is that I didn't know what to add on that section of the profile from reading the texts. It was not until I saw @mayel@bonfire.cafe 's profile that I understood that we were expected to add user handles from the fediverse. I'm not sure if any software using #ActivityPub will work here either, so I imagine that a better text, and potentially highlighting ActivityPub icon, would be appreciated. I took the liberty of proposing something in this quite clumpsy screenshot.
