flodebarre

flodebarre, 9 months ago to random

Hello Fedipeople,
I am looking for options to turn threads I have written on Twitter into more long-term and readable (and citable) online formats. Do you have suggestions? (Substack? Github? Google docs? Own website? Blogger? Other ideas?)
Thanks!

flodebarre, 10 months ago to bluesky

My science Twitter contacts seem much more enthusiastic about Bluesky than Mastodon. The greatest criticism I have heard about Mastodon is its decentralized nature; people were afraid of being stuck in silos. As far as I understand, #Bluesky is also decentralized, yet this does not seem to be how is how it is perceived. It seems like an opportunity has been missed here.
What do you think?

#scienceTwitter #ScienceMastodon #TwitterMigration

jonny, 10 months ago to random

the number of ppl perhaps rightly mourning the decay of academic twitter as one of the only ways to share, find and talk about research seems like it points directly to the fundamental hollowness of the current journal system as a means of uh sharing, finding, and talking about research.

our for-profit system of communication is so hostile to the way we want to work that we became dependent on a different, also very hostile informational chokepoint.

I think it is a pretty normal idea to want to try to rebuild our communication systems ourselves, in common. whatever that looks like. I get why that's weird or boring or scary to ppl I just think it would be fun and good to do.

ct_bergstrom, 11 months ago to random

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