Kudos to the #Netherlands.
https://www.uu.nl/en/news/82-of-scientific-publications-open-access-available
"Dutch universities published 82% of their peer-reviewed scientific publications #OpenAccess in 2021. This is an increase of nine percentage points compared to 2020."
Little experiment comparing activity on #Mastodon and #Twitter.
One hour ago, I posted the Dutch news above (previous item in this thread) at the same time to my personal accounts on #Mastodon and #Twitter. Here's what happened in that hour:
* Mastodon, 24 favorites, 12 boosts
* Twitter, 12 likes, 6 retweets
That's nearly twice as much engagement on Mastodon. But I have more than 23 times more followers on Twitter than Mastodon.
@petersuber Very interesting. Even alternative explanations like the time zone distribution of followers on each platform probably wouldn't be enough to explain it.
I see 5 boosts and 1 favorite on the Mastodon version of the Dutch news item. I believe your numbers, but yet again the visibility of who shows up comes into play. Hard (impossible?) to independently verify these counts unless I have access to your specific account.
@eschares @petersuber As long as you trust his instance, you can always get most accurate numbers yourself by viewing the post itself: https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/109302891202850367
(Numbers are still not perfect; people could always repeat the message elsewhere without notifying the original instance. But the same is true on Twitter — copy-paste is still a thing 🙂)
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