@lukemartell 1/ My interpretation, after reading the article: scientists are disappointed that there is no longer one, big default go-to social media platform for science topics and one site’s hashtags to keep track of. I’m not a scientist myself, but: creating ad-hoc sub-communities within the domains of a public-company’s ad-supported service is a big risk in the long-term.

@lukemartell 2/ On top of that, a generic social media platform lacks an understanding of niche communities. For example: I assume it does not recognise DOI links as anything special. Citations of sources in social-media posts could probably be handled better in the context of validating statements. The search functionality is almost always simplified to the point where you cannot lookup info or do research on years-old posts by other scientists in a structured way.