Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms
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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..
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It's important because, along with the ability to migrate accounts, it prevents/deters enshittification. In betting Bluesky will hit that wall in the next few years (I'm guessing they'll never properly implement federation).
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Do you refer to the "Following" Vs "Discover" feed?
Apparently it's very noticeable when a post hits the discover feed. The quality of responses dives off a cliff.
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It's a problem for the same reason twitter dying sucks.. The network effect is important, and maintaining yours during a slow, piecemeal mass migration is hard. Which is why I'm sticking with mastodon now, despite more of my relevant network being on BS.
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It's a big elephant and you send "Toots!".
How do you confused that with a cynical robot and a giant shark? You'd post "Quips!" or "Bites!". Wouldn't work at all.
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Yes the recommended feed is personalized. It's optional. The main feed has no algorithm,, just who you follow.
The thing is, a lot of social media sites have or had this. YouTube has the subscriptions feed. Twitter has (I don't know anymore) a following feed. Reddit used to keep posts on your homepage only being from subscribed subreddits.
Thing is, people don't use them. They see maintaining subscriptions as work and so want to be fed posts by algorithm.
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"Bites" is so cool...
