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Bluesky now platform of choice for science community
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Re: Bluesky now platform of choice for science community
#12It's surprising that any serious organization or person would still use Twitter in its current state.
It's surprising that any serious organization used it at all. It was never a good place to spend your time really.
It's sad that the science community is just moving to another walled garden rather than spawning its own network of federated ActivityPub services (eg: mastodon).
Bluesky seems to be based on an open protocol (AT Protocol), but how actually interoperable is that ? I can't find a list of non-bluesky AT protocol servers that can interoperate with Bluesky.
Re: Bluesky now platform of choice for science community
#13Bluesky is still trending downward in activity and has been losing popularity over the last year. https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats
This is extremely interesting. Didn't know of these stats. Would be great to be able to have twitter, mastodon and bluesky on the same graph (perhaps with different y-axes to allow comparison of their relative trends)
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#14It's surprising that any serious organization or person would still use Twitter in its current state.
No true scotsman's fallacy - no serious person would use X; if you use X you aren't serious .
I don't agree. There are still serious organizations and people using Twitter. I believe that to be true. I'm just surprised they haven't moved.
For example there are emergency systems or local governments that announce information on Twitter. These feel like serious organizations to me. At minimum I feel like they should be in multiple places and not just Twitter.
Re: Bluesky now platform of choice for science community
#15Among all the major technical benefits of Bluesky over Twitter listed in the article, I'd add two more:
* links to external web pages (your paper, your blog, your new dataset, etc.) won't cause your posts to be suppressed
* Bluesky discussions are accessible to the open web
These two features are absolutely essential for science, and perhaps if X was more like Twitter on free speech and openness to the web then scientists wouldn't have moved away.
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#16No kidding when the other site has filled up with people who only believes statements that any smart 5 year old would think is silly. It is too bad things have got to this point, but we as voters let it happen. At least there are some countries that still value Science. The US seems to be doing all it can to hand what remains of our scientific lead to those countries.
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Re: Bluesky now platform of choice for science community
#17It's surprising that any serious organization or person would still use Twitter in its current state.
It's surprising that any serious organization used it at all. It was never a good place to spend your time really. It's sad that the science community is just moving to another walled garden rather than spawning its own network of federated ActivityPub services (eg: mastodon). Bluesky seems to be based on an open protocol (AT Protocol), but how actually interoperable is that ? I can't find a list of non-bluesky AT pr…
It was a good place to get messages out quickly - if I wanted to know that my cable company knew the internet was down, either from their direct acknowledgement or people sending messages to them, I went there. But now that I need an account to even see the comments or posts it's impractical to use.
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#18Can't help but notice arstechnica seems to have an anti-Elon agenda. I recall them posting articles claiming Twitter's content was important for historical reasons (agree on that) and would disappear once Elon took over, which afaik, didn't happen.
owned by conde nast its just normal MSM stuff
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#19Can't help but notice arstechnica seems to have an anti-Elon agenda. I recall them posting articles claiming Twitter's content was important for historical reasons (agree on that) and would disappear once Elon took over, which afaik, didn't happen.
X hides discussions. If somebody sends you a link you can't see the discussion without an account and logging in and being extensively tracked.
Not sure what you mean about anti-Elon bias. This was straightforward reporting of the truth. If reality has an anti-Elon bias then perhaps it's not bias.
Re: Bluesky now platform of choice for science community
#20Reading through the comments makes it seem like Bluesky is the Titantic and it's proponents are the orchestra on board.