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infyrin ,
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Anyone who is intelligent would be rotting their brains reading even a handful of the shit that is circulated on there. Elon is their ringleader now. Why is it news for people continuing to ditch Twitter? They saw the writing on the wall.

moitoi ,

To avoid a similar situation in the future, Mastodon is a good choice. They can migrate their account if an instance goes wrong.

Others are more centralized if not totally centralized. It will repeat sooner or later on them.

foksmash ,

Just change the name of the sub to “Obsessed with Elon” already. Garbage.

phoenixz ,

Yeah, can you imagine? People having legit and valid criticisms against a billionaire scammer who thrives on drama, as long as his name is dropped? Who does that? Who would complain about a person who touts himself a genius whilst showing every-single-time that he’s little more than a dumb scammer who got very lucky from the day he was born whilst screwing over everyone on his path?

What hasn’t been a lie coming out of his mouth?

TwilightVulpine ,

All of that wouldn’t even have this much attention if he hadn’t hijacked a platform used by hundreds of millions of people and molded it to his ridiculous whims. Most people posting about Elon would love to forget that he exists, but he keeps being a problem.

ricdeh ,
@ricdeh@lemmy.world avatar

Why would anyone use Twitter for research promotion? Almost no one on that platform has any idea what they’re engaging with regarding scientific matters.

UnD3Rgr0uNDCL0wN ,

And now, thanks to Musk you’ve got “experts” telling everyone the world will end. Disaster trolls. As well as climate denier fake science. These people willfully and frequently attack real scientists and encourage others to do this for them.

mojo ,

Article doesn’t need to explain why, other then because it’s a toxic shit hole that’s crashing and burning.

Mrduckrocks ,

I can bet some of them are researchers that use tweet datasets to conduct various research. After the API price changes its literally too expensive to generate datasets.

ultratiem ,
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Elon Musk took it over. If you have half a brain, and understand the field he’s talking about, you would have closed your account the moment he was handed the keys. How anyone ever thought ‘hey wait, maybe?’ is absolutely beyond me. It was the titanic. Too slow to steer but ample time to reflect on the matter.

And Elon steered away. Killed the brand. Polarized the community. Gutted the technology that powers it. And drove away any semblance of order and most importantly, ad revenue. Top notch business model, gotta say. Very. Novel.

Imagine the tenacity it takes to turn a $44 billion dollar company into a $12 billion dollar one in under one year.

Darkhoof ,
@Darkhoof@lemmy.world avatar

Can confirm. The moment he was handed the keys I closed my account.

TwilightVulpine ,

I still feel bad for smaller artists who can’t so easily bring their hard-earned following somewhere else along with them.

Silverseren ,

I left months ago and have been doing my science communication on Mastodon since then. Sure, it sucks having to start over on a new platform, but I had already been doing that since leaving Facebook anyways.

STRIKINGdebate2 ,
@STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world avatar

Sounds like the removal of verifications was a big cause of this. Now anyone can post anything and have the same weight as a verified professional. Musk’s buyout of twitter was nothing more than a billionaire (backed by the Saudi government) launching an attack on the truth itself.

rjs001 ,
@rjs001@lemmygrad.ml avatar

If not using Twitter causes you angst then you need more going on in your life

Anticorp ,

But that was, she says, before the platform became a “sea of bad trolls”.

It has always been a sea of bad trolls.

demlet ,

I’m just going to go out on a limb and say, maybe it shouldn’t be possible for one person to have enough wealth to singlehandedly buy and destroy important social institutions.

Also, maybe smart people shouldn’t be putting all their eggs into one privately owned basket.

hstde ,

It probably was one of the best and simplest tools for the job.

Buddahriffic ,

Yes! The sale should have never been allowed and I really wonder if the whole “made a big offer that he tried to back out of but was forced to follow through on” was just a big play put on by Elon and the regulators to get people to feel good about the sale going through rather than being blocked like it should have.

Anticorp ,

Also, maybe smart people shouldn’t be putting all their eggs into one privately owned basket.

I yelled this from the mountain top when everyone was moving their businesses off their own websites and onto Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, but I was the minority. Why you would put the fate of your company, or hell, your government, into the hands of a mega-corp that is run by a sociopathic megalomaniac is beyond me.

butterflyattack ,

TBF Facebook and Twitter etc were profitable platforms for a lot of businesses for a while. They obviously weren’t going to last forever though so it would have been short-sighted not to plan for them dying off.

obinice ,
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Woah now hold on just a second, that almost sounds like you’re criticising our perfect system of capitalism, in which a single person can and will accumulate enough wealth and power to buy and control hugely important things, and destroy them if they choose to. That’s like, the whole point of capitalism, to transfer as much wealth and power into as few hands as possible, regardless of any silly moral issues.

Sure, we could nationalise such important services for the good of the planet, like the police, fire brigade, water, electricity, healthcare, road maintenance, public transport, etc, but what are we, commies? 😮

fidodo ,

Are there any academic focused lemmy instances? I’d love a community that requires proof of a degree to join (could still allow users from other instances to comment and participate) and only has science focused communities.

MajorHavoc ,

I’m curious about this too. I would love to lurk in some science communities here.

I do know there’s a lot of academics on Mastodon. Mastodon is way more fun than the Twitter ever was, because Mastodon let’s me follow scientists and doesn’t bury their posts.

emergencyfood ,

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rjs001 ,
@rjs001@lemmygrad.ml avatar

Just another instance full of conservatives

rjs001 ,
@rjs001@lemmygrad.ml avatar

And how exactly would you have proof of degree? Who is going to have records sent from their university to this weird social media site?

Hackerman_uwu ,

I’d love a community that requires proof of a degree to join

Gross.

fidodo ,

Why? What’s nice about lemmy is you can have special purpose instances. It’s no different than having an academic email address. You can still participate on an instance without making an account.

magnetosphere , (edited )
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Roughly 46% have joined other social-media platforms, such as Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads and TikTok.

Huh?

With Bluesky, ultimately you’re still subject to Musk’s whims [see edit]. As for TikTok, all I can say is ”seriously?!?”

Edit: I was wrong about this. Sorry!

Kingofthezyx ,

BlueSky is completely separate from Twitter. And as for TikTok, a social media scientist’s concerns aren’t really for their own personal privacy or the integrity of the web, but for reaching the largest audience they can.

Love it or hate it, TikTok is one of the largest audiences out there, period.

magnetosphere ,
@magnetosphere@kbin.social avatar

While I know they’re separate companies, I had thought that Twitter posts could show up on BlueSky. Therefore, Musk could turn off compatibility at any time, which is where the “whims” bit came in.

Is that inaccurate? Am I remembering wrong? I’d appreciate any correction if I’m saying something that isn’t true.

wisdomchicken ,

Yeah that’s wrong, twitter posts don’t show up in Bluesky at all. Completely separate network

magnetosphere ,
@magnetosphere@kbin.social avatar

Okay. Whoops. Thanks!

OldFartPhil ,

TikTok

What scientist would not want to promote their latest research while wearing a CGI-generated cat head and doing interpretative dance to a base heavy riff by a band autotuned to sound like robotic pre-pubescent Japanese girls?

ZILtoid1991 ,
@ZILtoid1991@kbin.social avatar

VTuber/utaite Delutaya does actually really like space, so maybe she can...

breakfastburrito ,

wrt TikTok I assume the poll just asked what other platforms you are on, not if you are posting career related things on the platform. Most grad students are in their 20s and probably use TikTok for entertainment.

magnetosphere ,
@magnetosphere@kbin.social avatar

Okay. That’s a sensible explanation. Thanks!

I was wondering why the hell a researcher would use a video platform!

demlet ,

There are some really good scientists using TikTok to spread better science literacy, which is great. But obviously they aren’t presenting high level academic research data, it’s not suited to that at all.

allalae ,

When my partner shows me their feed on tiktok, we’ve run into quite a few folks trying to do community outreach through it. Can’t say I’m a big fan of the app, but given how popular it is, I’m glad there are scientists who are trying to put out some decent information on it.

Dee ,
@Dee@lemmings.world avatar

I’ve seen a handful switching to Substack as well. I’ve been experimenting with that platform lately and I like the post editor, lots of tools but not overly bloated, it’s pretty good. My only complaint so far has been that a lot of History/Academic Substacks seem to be pushing for the paid tier and so hide a lot of their posts behind a paywall Patreon style. Because of that Mastodon has been my favorite since the Twitter exodus.

branchial ,

His management has left scientists reconsidering the value of X

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