Scientists on Twitter head for the exit
Scientists on Twitter head for the exit
A feud on Twitter highlights the perils of engaging on the platform and a growing tension among researchers and medical professionals.
A feud on Twitter highlights the perils of engaging on the platform and a growing tension among researchers and medical professionals.
They should have been leaving earlier, the outcome was clear by last year. But when I saw recently that Block Party was going away, I knew that it was going to become hellish and untenable.
Let's make them welcome here....
Oh wow. That's going to make Twitter a real hellscape.
Sucks to be stubborn in the face of a clear and obvious fascist takeover.
Clout is a helluva drug. I do hope they join us here though.
yes please, come to the fediverse!
tied of pulling AI news off twitter already
It is so damn refreshing seeing what is just "new" instead of what clickbait trained ai is pushing.
I've really enjoyed the lack of guerrilla marketing on Lemmy. But indeed it's great that the platform is not so big that it needs some algorithms to decide what to show, and in doing so attracts all kinds of content optimizers.
its work to sift through the junk but its worth it, i refer to my communities all day while working already!
Anybody know where they're going? I've seen some in mastodon, some in substack, some just on linkedin...but other than rss there is no easy way to follow a larger crowd of posters from different sources.
It's all kind of new so nobody knows where the large majority will land until the dust settles. Probably another year or so. But Substack and Mastodon seem to be the most common from what I've seen.
Wikipedia is also making social platform too, called WT Social. It's not federated unfortunately, but maybe that makes it easier to moderate
Edit: The beta is here
https://wts2.wt.social