I still think this site has potential long term, but honestly, I've been back to The Other Site a lot more lately, just because it's too hard to look away from a trainwreck as it's happening. Yes, yes, can't let the public square be owned by billionaires, gotta build a new model for social media, etc etc. But... there's just nothing as remotely outrageous happening over here. I feel like I have to enjoy the show while it lasts.

@pfau

I am finding more informative, work-related posts here now. And I even open the local feed on sigmoid.social. But I keep going back to birdsite for the disaster tourism.

@Riedl @pfau This site needs lots more self-promotion of arXiv preprints (I'm serious)
@jacobeisenstein @Riedl @pfau But can we please retain the lack of humble bragging?
@ntenenz @jacobeisenstein @pfau You can take the academics out of twitter. But can you take the twitter out of academics? 🙃