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• cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Bluesky might be better than X I’ if all you want is SMS length microblogging, but I’d like to see scientific types embrace a more federated system.

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  • OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If only Mastodon would spend time making the platform more usable, perhaps they would. e.g. the impersonation issue, which is much less of a problem on a non-federated platform, plus Bluesky takes a highly aggressive stance against it.

    Also the enormous discoverability issue on Mastodon has lead people to say that “Mastodon seemed to actively discourage discoverability.” This article seems very worth reading btw, as many of the same issues plague the Threadiverse as well - hostility to non-technical normies, hostility towards anyone less ideologically pure than oneself, hostility towards… wait, am I sensing a pattern here!?!:-P Early adoptors (who are proficient in using Arch Linux btw) are quite a very different crowd and while yes scientists are smart, they are also smart enough to realize that moving from a place where their work can be seen to a place where it will not be is not a very productive endeavor, in the short-term, for themselves.

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    • arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think one of the biggest problems is that upvotes or whatever they’re called don’t federate. Every time I’ve played around with using a smaller instance, it felt incredibly empty because posts would have almost no upvotes. Even instances of like middling sizes can feel empty depending on who you follow.

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    • brachiosaurus@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The only reason mastodon isn’t as popular as bluesky is because famous people got told to go there and not on mastodon.

      Does that instance make people in the Western world feel comfortable when they visit it - especially mainstream normies… or even scientists

      The ceo of twitter is a pedophile who advertise for political parties on a daily basis. The average normie use whatever platform is popular and it’s not mastodon because nobody is being paid or told to use it.

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    • JesusChristLover420@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      We need a “Lemmy for normies” instance that doesn’t federate with any of the weird instances

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  • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I wonder if an archivist-oriented Fediverse instance would gain traction - maybe it could be coordinated with an organization like Wikimedia

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• deathbird@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Here’s a thought: no microblogging platform is suitable for professional use. Cut it out, stop it.

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  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Clearly it was suitable for their purposes at one time?

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    • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It was exceptionally useful during the Arab spring.

      When it was just “a text message to the world” it had its use.

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  • queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Why not? Science should be done in the public view. I want more professional scientists in my feed.

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The fascist site where the owner bought the presidency gor trump and then decimated the government with clueless arrogance in three months?

  Man who would ever want to not provide content for that nazi to keep making money.

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• morphballganon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Still a lot of toxicity on BS as well, and I only see that increasing

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• skozzii@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Mechahitler doesn’t appeal to professionals, weird.

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• Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Somewhat encouraging at least some public community is being built elsewhere, instead of the only widespread options being X and group chats. Hopefully the momentum keeps going and more types of users also make the switch.

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• hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Glad they caught up with the rest of us.

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• eleitl@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Which “professional edge” are they talking about?

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• TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Scientists, huh?

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