Ron Chusid 

"Even if academic Twitter ends up largely moving to Mastodon, the big question is whether the general public will move there, too, allowing scientists to communicate with more than just each other. “When I tweet, I’m talking to my neighbor and the person in the grocery store and the teenager who is thinking about studying science in college,” Fiesler says. “That’s the beauty of scientists on social media.”

https://www.science.org/content/article/musk-reshapes-twitter-academics-ponder-taking-flight

Nov 5, 2022 at 1:55pmWeb
Show threadGnomeNov 5, 2022
@rchusid I came, but it seems the rest of my fellow patient advocates haven’t yet.
Show threadRon Chusid Nov 5, 2022
@wildelakegnome This is one of the major problems with leaving Twitter. Despite some closing their accounts, the bulk of people are on Twitter. That is what matters, more than whether there are some problems at Twitter. I'm sticking primarily with Twitter and have set up Mastodon just in case.
Show threadGnomeNov 5, 2022
@rchusid same. Staked my claim, and that’s about it so far. I’m also conflicted about leaving. If they run us off, then they win. Kinda of like not wanting to let the fascists win in the world, too.
Show threadNiyant VoraNov 5, 2022
@rchusid It’s an interesting point for sure! Honestly this is probably my biggest concern/issue with Mastodon, but I’m hoping (perhaps a bit naïvely that more attention on this platform might help address those things)
Show threadChristos Argyropoulos MD PhDNov 6, 2022
@rchusid Crossposting is the way out of this dilemma. Twitter had become unusable for scientific communication and one had to run multiple lists in multiple accounts to avoid the recommended systems
Show threadBehindmyscreenNov 6, 2022
@rchusid Twitter wasn’t popular outside the nerdosphere for a couple years.
Show threadH. MantegazziNov 18, 2022
@rchusid I'm not sure how well that travels, though. At least here in Chile, it's a commonly known statistic that Twitter reaches only 10% of the adult population, and it's heavily biased in demographics
Show threadsyed t. hoda Nov 18, 2022

@rchusid

at first i was worried about this
but i've now realised that all of
our posts can be seen by peeps
of all different servers, and have
already met many non-science
people already!

Show threadSteve WhiteNov 18, 2022
@syed @rchusid

Yeah, I'm not sure why so many people think they can only see/be seen by local users.
Show threadDr Auriol PurdieNov 18, 2022
@rchusid over the past year I’ve gained so much in my research from my Twitter interactions with livestock farmers - if Twitter shuts down & they don’t migrate across here, it would be a great loss for me.
Show threaddocmoschosNov 18, 2022
@rchusid horses for courses as they say in England. We keep the jargon here, and present the lay there. If Twitter collapses we’ll see what the general public decides (Facebook, TikTok, mastodon, a.n.other). I hope someone, somewhere, is preserving the scientific exchanges.
Show threadSuzana Makowski MDNov 18, 2022
@rchusid please add me and @hollyby
Show threadRon Chusid Nov 18, 2022
@suzanakm @hollyby Done