'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.'
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
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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 #Twitter 
👉 #Xitter 🚽 , so twits still tweeting are 💩s.
#TwitterDown #MastodonMigration
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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.