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.
Thanks for all the comments on this little experiment (meta observation: more in #Mastodon than #Twitter). I've seen many good points on how we might explain and interpret the result. For a better understanding of #Mastodon v. #Twitter engagement, we'll clearly need a more systematic experiment.
I won't do that systematic experiment. But if anyone else is interested, here are some recommendations....
* Try the experiment with posts on different topics.
* Try it at different times of day.
* Try it with posts from from people with more/fewer followers than I have.
* Try it in posts with and without a link.
I believe we're all pretty much in the dark on the Twitter algorithm that promotes and demotes posts. But insofar as you have good guesses, or want to test certain guesses, then try this experiment with posts that have/lack some of those magic ingredients.
petersuber