Why now?
Sci-Hub Twitter account suspended
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#72I am no scientist, and I have no access to paywalled platforms and publications. So Sci-Hub is my only available option, and it is increadibly valuable when it comes to doing research on a specific topic. - I can remember the old days of the internet, pre-wikipedia, when encyclopedias were a paid thing. And I did not have the means to subscribe to them. And I remember the days of the internet pre sci-hub, where a lay…
Not to take away from Sci-Hub, but even without institutional access, there are often alternatives: - more and more research institutes have a public repository of articles. - plenty of authors put their own (preprints of) papers on their personal website, a preprint server like arxiv, or researchgate. - lastly, you can mail an author and request a preprint. Not all will reply, but plenty will be happy that someone n…
Many of the papers I'm interested in are published long ago and the authors dead.
For some reason, they're also slow to respond to emails.
For any papers published before 1965, even with maximal renewals available at the time of publication, the works would now be in the public domain under copyright law at the time of publication. Otherwise, many works published prior to 1976 which were either only renewed once or never registered would similarly have lapsed to public domain, or always been so.
That's a huge effectively-lost trove of knowledge.
Re: Sci-Hub Twitter account suspended
#73As someone who hasn't used social media in 5+ years, what do these social networks need to do to make you quit using them? There has to be some threshold but I just don't understand how this threshold hasn't been crossed for more people. I don't want to see Twitter legislated or controlled. The counter balance and equilibrium should be doing crazy things causes a massive loss of users so crazy things do not happen. T…
Twitter really isn't a social network. If you follow industry professionals and academics, it's a feed of interesting and important news tied to your direct interests.
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Other humans acknowledging your existence and even agreeing with your various opinions is a very very euphoric experience, it is true of any social media. Suddenly you have hundreds or even thousands of people that "get" you, that understand how great and clever you are. This is the drug that people can't quit. People won't quit because they'd be unable to tell people that they've quit. Another take could be that we…
> Other humans acknowledging your existence and even agreeing with your various opinions is a very very euphoric experience, it is true of any social media. Suddenly you have hundreds or even thousands of people that "get" you, that understand how great and clever you are. This is the drug that people can't quit. It’s always funny to see people discussing “social media” as some insidious drug that other people use to…
The quality of Hacker News discussion is orders of magnitude better than any other platform I’ve tried. (Thanks, dang, for everything you do!)
So, this is the only social media I use.
Re: Sci-Hub Twitter account suspended
#75As someone who hasn't used social media in 5+ years, what do these social networks need to do to make you quit using them? There has to be some threshold but I just don't understand how this threshold hasn't been crossed for more people. I don't want to see Twitter legislated or controlled. The counter balance and equilibrium should be doing crazy things causes a massive loss of users so crazy things do not happen. T…
Twitter really isn't a social network. If you follow industry professionals and academics, it's a feed of interesting and important news tied to your direct interests.
Alas, this reads like a drug dealer distinguishing crack from cocaine.
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#76Why?
Why now is what I’m wondering.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
We need an alternative. Simple personal Rss will do. Users will go wherever the techies tell them to go
That's never been the case. Users at large want convenience above all . If Twitter were to hire a private army and take over a small remote island exterminating its indigenous populace in the process, I would bet good money they would lose fewer users than if they were to force mandatory 2FA and >16 character passwords.
I don't care about users at large they can keep debating their politics at twitter. But it is also the equivalent of a public feed for all kinds of important people and personalities
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
We need an alternative. Simple personal Rss will do. Users will go wherever the techies tell them to go
> Users will go wherever the techies tell them to go Only if those techies make it worthwhile. How do we make something like private RSS feeds as easy as facebook?
First by having rss feeds. Then by creating competing readers
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#79I am no scientist, and I have no access to paywalled platforms and publications. So Sci-Hub is my only available option, and it is increadibly valuable when it comes to doing research on a specific topic. - I can remember the old days of the internet, pre-wikipedia, when encyclopedias were a paid thing. And I did not have the means to subscribe to them. And I remember the days of the internet pre sci-hub, where a lay…
Not to take away from Sci-Hub, but even without institutional access, there are often alternatives: - more and more research institutes have a public repository of articles. - plenty of authors put their own (preprints of) papers on their personal website, a preprint server like arxiv, or researchgate. - lastly, you can mail an author and request a preprint. Not all will reply, but plenty will be happy that someone n…
If you have a public university nearby, you can access most popular journals in the libraries. Since they are state funded, generally any resident of the state has a right to use their libraries.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Twitter really isn't a social network. If you follow industry professionals and academics, it's a feed of interesting and important news tied to your direct interests.
Alas, this reads like a drug dealer distinguishing crack from cocaine.
I don't think drug dealers do. Only the government does.