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Scientists on Twitter head for the exit (www.axios.com)
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A feud on Twitter highlights the perils of engaging on the platform and a growing tension among researchers and medical professionals.

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[–] 4 points 3 years ago (9 children)

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.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (7 children)

    Wikipedia is also making social platform too, called WT Social. It's not federated unfortunately, but maybe that makes it easier to moderate

    https://wt.social/

    Edit: The beta is here
    https://wts2.wt.social

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Why do I get a bad feeling about it? I hope wikipedia remains the same after that.

    Besides... they ask so desperately for donations, so it makes me wonder if the project can be sustainable.

    Maybe I'm overthinking stuff, let's see how it goes.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    on Twitter jimmy said that after they sort out their main focus which is some "trust based algorithm" system that I don't really understand, they will add activitypub and all sorts of ways to make it more interconnected.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    Yeah, the trust based algo is how they operate wikipedia. Basically it rates users on their edits and accuracy, Ina very slow and time consuming manner for the mods. But it means that users get "trust ranks" for their contributions and have more power based on their rank.

    Used on a social media platform will be an interesting experiment, especially if it gets federated. Could be good or bad

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