'Concerns about the decline of X as a source of reliable information extends beyond the scientific and academic communities. During the apparent coup attempt in Russia in June, journalists noticed its relative uselessness at helping them find real-time, breaking information from the ground and sifting fact from fakery, due in part to Musk’s trashing of its account verification system.'
@gpollara @cyrilpedia @academicchatter "the ability to curate... or followers to accept" is *exactly* what Mastodon enables users to do.
@gpollara @cyrilpedia @academicchatter
#scientists (except nuclear scientists) don't have to worry about a critical mass.
They just need a platform to provide information. Then every person who is interested into it can access it.
A lot of platforms provide that. #mastodon does this especially well.
@folkerschamel
I think this is only partially true-- for said interested people to access information requires it to be indexed or searchable, which requires more deliberation (or is not always possible) here. My experience is that e.g. # physics is rather slow
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@kdund @gpollara @cyrilpedia @academicchatter
Hm, well, #google is indexing #mastodon servers.
But in my view more important - not only for science, but in general - are #journalists, who analyze, evaluate, select, organize information and put them into context.
Even the #scientific #community itself is more based on people knowing where to find information than a good index/search function.
Hmm, strongly disagree, I think, on the importance of making information findable-- if I cannot find a paper on inspire+arxiv or possibly a kagi query as well, it is very unlikely I'll ever see it
Agree that it is more important that journalists do their job to hold power to account
For experts, if a paper is not indexed on inspire+arxiv or researchgate, I'm not sure that social media is the solution for that problem.😉
@cyrilpedia The world will be just fine without Twitter 
. @mariyadelano was bringing fantastic insights to mastodon from telegram. Because that’s the social network that was relevant to the people in the crisis. If something happens in China (hello, financial crisis), they have their own dominant social networks too: WeChat and Weibo.
@cyrilpedia
The question is, why is anyone reasonable still on Xitter?
@cyrilpedia
This 👇 is the key passage to me. Sadly no one wins from the #fragmentation that's come from the decline of #twitter / #X
#Threads #Bluesky #Bastodon #academicchatter #academia @academicchatter