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Bastian Greshake TzovarasI guess it's great that 46% of scientists have joined other social-media platforms following Twitters self-destruction (though lol, for LinkedIn being the 2nd most frequently joined one š). But only 7% have stopped using Twitter altogether? That's quite depressing!
ahistorical immaterialist@gedankenstuecke I haven't been on there since November, and honestly without the time wasted doom scrolling and fighting off trolls, I'm much more productive. Reading more papers, paying more attention to collaborators and students. Twitter was overrated, scientists have always had ways to communicate without it.
@jimbob I kinda disagree on the overrated-part, Iām pretty sure that I wouldnāt have the academic post-PhD career I now have without it as it allowed me to pivot into a different discipline. But that was a lot based on early/mid-2010s twitter. Totally feeling a lot better off without 2020s Twitter.
Quarky@gedankenstuecke It takes time to try and find if people you still want to follow are on Mastodon, meanwhile Twitter is desperately sending me messages to try an get me to access my account. š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£
@Quarky Oh, I only know those desperate attempts from Facebook!
The Flight Attendant@gedankenstuecke I bet xitter is simply lying about their numbers.
Philip Bett-Williams šØāš»@gedankenstuecke I'm pretty much read-only on Tw now, and only when I get notified that particular accounts have posted. So I can't say I'm off it "entirely".
I still see more interesting things in my Tw feed than here TBH.
But then I'll see advert after terrible pointless advert, and long chains of bile-filled hatemongering replies, and I close the app really quickly...
@pbett yeah, I think to make Mastodon work for the ādiscovery of interesting thingsā one needs to follow a larger set of people compared to twitter, as twitter would just cover up for it with the algorithmic inclusion of content (that was always hit & miss as you describe!)
Michael Baudis@gedankenstuecke Especially for organizations it is a slow process and then it becomes a šš£problem. But e.g. just back from an ELIXIR call: There are at least plansā¦
@mbaudis yeah, though Iād argue exactly no one is on any social media to primarily follow institutional accounts. Itās a nice-have if they are there, but I doubt thereās a lot of people that would say āif only academic institution/organization X was on this Iād make an accountā.
@gedankenstuecke Thatās mixed; youāre obv. not interested in your own institutions (we have enough channels for that, thank you very much); the more distant ones may deliver interesting pointers. BUT it is good to get tracked / amplified by your own affiliations.
@mbaudis I don't know, maybe for comparatively small institutions that's the case, but the larger/more established places virtually all just use social media as a way to push their press releases et al.