Björn BrembsFeb 21, 2023

Many scholars are leaving Twitter for #Mastodon, a public, decentralized alternative, impervious to private take-over:

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

Scholarly organizations are already supporting this migration:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00486-3

and

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7643817

There are analogous solutions for another public good in private hands: journals. There are even levers the scholarly community could pull to incentivize an analogous migration:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5526634

What are we waiting for?

As Musk reshapes Twitter, academics ponder taking flight

Many researchers are setting up profiles on social media site Mastodon

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@brembs The evidence so far among academics and journalists with tens or even hundreds of thousands of followers is that they will never, ever leave Twitter. Having a voice that reaches that many people is too much power, and too intoxicating to let go of.
Feb 21, 2023 at 5:26pmWeb