Hope
Giorgio GilestroScience weights in on the twitter migration by scientists.
https://www.science.org/content/article/musk-reshapes-twitter-academics-ponder-taking-flight
Kristin Branson@giorgiogilestro I find it weird that they include number of followers in their descriptions of people.
@kristinmbranson I guess it's a way of stressing that these people are ready to give up a large crowd of followers just to stick to their principles.
@giorgiogilestro I guess the question arises whether academics are looking to 'inform' OR 'influence'. If it's the former the follower count shouldn't matter as much. If it's the latter, perhaps there's a need for soul searching why a platform without peer review should support influence.
Arindam Basu"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"
#fediverse has grown and will continue to expand on interest networks converging. The general members of the public will arrive, on the heels of journalists who cover stories. That phenomenon already happens.
Ko-Fan Chen 陳克帆@arinbasu @giorgiogilestro when I reluctantly started twitter, it was never about to reach general public, but to other scientists. So for now I am enjoying the fact I talk to my peers and receive info with high SNR and without endless bombardment of Aldi discounts/Football promotes and the sort. True, we may not be able to trigger revolution here or do far reaching political activism, but for me this is much closer to what I intended with twitter 2yrs ago
Yes, true.
When I started using twitter (2006), no one cared much about these things. We used to share status updates, and that was about it. Then others arrived shared papers and notes, and all of that.
This is the bit I like about qoto.org. We can share papers, codes, and discuss about it. Like arXiv, except the discussions happen at the same time as in a social medium. Qoto also because it allows $\alpha$ style posting, I think.