You’ll find most scientists hanging out on the platform formally known as Twitter, Bluesky, and (to a lesser degree) Mastodon. This may be disappointing to hear, but most scientists are just normal people who don’t really care about federation and open source software and stuff. They just want to post stuff and have it be seen.
Some of us do care! Just not enough to get a critical mass away from the proprietary networks.
You’ll find most scientists hanging out on the platform formally known as Twitter, Bluesky, and (to a lesser degree) Mastodon. This may be disappointing to hear, but most scientists are just normal people who don’t really care about federation and open source software and stuff. They just want to post stuff and have it be seen.
Some of us do care! Just not enough to get a critical mass away from the proprietary networks.