Leibniz Open Science
"What is most striking from the accounts that have appeared away from X since Musk’s takeover, is that the majority are inactive."
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2024/09/05/if-academic-x-is-sinking-where-are-research-organisations-going/
If ‘academic X’ is sinking, where are research organisations going?

For research communications professionals and academics, X can feel a little like being the band on the Titanic, defiantly playing on as the once great ship slides under the water. As a number of a…

Impact of Social Sciences
Sep 20, 2024 at 3:00pmWeb
Show threadJulian FietkauSep 20, 2024

@leibnizopenscience Admirable sleuthing work by the author, although the article omits the (IMO worth highlighting) aspect that as a Mastodon user, I can not only follow other Mastodon accounts, but also accounts on Threads*, Bluesky*, and many other platforms. Of these four microblogging environments, it's only Twitter that wants to be entirely closed off.

(* with some caveats and only if the account owners want to be widely followable)