'Many individuals have jumped ship to smaller platforms such as Mastodon, Threads and Bluesky. In contrast, many research organisations remain on deck, playing to a diminishing audience. Until recently, I was one of them and before you read this as one of those melodramatic ‘I quit’ notices, this post is about what happens to these organisations.'
@cyrilpedia
Interesting read - thanks for sharing!
It's telling in many ways that the "share bar" at the top of the post includes Twitter (not X - also making an off statement) and FB, but not Mastodon, Bluesky or even Threads.
@boud @cyrilpedia @ChrisWilms23
They meant decentralised and under-indexed. But tripped, banged their knee on the coffee table and landed in the banana cream pie or ironic word use.
@cyrilpedia @ChrisWilms23
The argument of staying on the birdsite to keep up dialogue beyond one's bubble is in itself laudable, but the author says little about the counterarguments - the intellectual goals+ethics of academia: independence, self-organisation, respectful speech.
Leaving the birdsite because others are leaving is essentially #XiJinping 's #WholeProcessPeoplesDemocracy [1].
* "the siloed nature of the Mastodon Fediverse" - misuse of the word "silo"
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole-process_people%27s_democracy