Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms
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This one is so important. After a year my mastodon feed is perfectly tailored for me. When I open it I enjoy my time there and the posts I see. I can leave whenever I want, and without a feel of rage or anxiety. But the most important part is that I don't feel the compulsive need to open it every other second. It's to liberating in contrast with the algorithm led manipulation.
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Bluesky also has the option of doing this, or not.
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I think there's a fairly serious problem for large accounts on mastodon but I will never have one so I can't quite understand it myself.
Something like dealing with replies / scolds without spending all day blocking is too hard.
It doesn't help that "no algorithm" means "show first reply at the top" so quick replies can dominate comments.The but I don't understand is why this is fine on blue sky. Is it just different users? I can't quite believe that but I can't see why blue sky would be less annoying.
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We can avoid it ever becoming shit when a wannabe dictator buys it if we make it impossible to sell: like mastodon and other federated options.
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Most scientists aren't allowed to do stuff like that, or purely just don't have the time.
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Never meet your heroes. If a scientist is human, they're as fallible as any other.
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There's no excuse for using Xittter in 2025.
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Look at Linux's popularity over the years. It is absolutely climbing. FOSS hasn't even peaked yet lol
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See you can be a really good scientist and not smart at the same time. Move to mastodon.
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Thanks for the update. Yes the recommended feed is personalized. It's optional. The main feed has no algorithm,, just who you follow.
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Cause the name is hard to remember.. I was trying to yesterday and the closest I could get is megatron
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These who waited until the X take over to move away are simply following trends.
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I tried masterdon, mostertant (I don’t know what that one is) and eventually needed to look up the name from an E-Mail…
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wait.. is it? dont threaten me with a good time
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Exactly. I've curated my Mastodon feed way more than Bsky, and still, it's incredibly boring. Great if you want to use socials less.
It also tends to overvalue new stuff, so whoever screams the most occupies the most space in the feed.
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i get it, its so frustrating. with bluesky we are just hitting the snooze button, theres bound to be problems with a privately owned social network again.
the fact people are sumarily rejecting a nazi platform for being nazi is actually pretty refreshing though.
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From what I understand, Bsky didn't actually provide much (if any) OSS code to create the federated apps, just the protocol. So there would need to be tons of work done to create it. Some people were (rightly) pointing out that time might be better spent improving existing solutions like Mastodon, rather than freely providing more value to a for-profit company.
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Some of us have. There are a few science focused servers.
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What.. Are you taking about? I know hundreds of scientists and the vast majority of them interact with social media just as much as normal people.
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It's not that it's less annoying, it's that it was in the right place at the right time to capture sufficient network effect..
