Would be better if it was Mastodon, but I suppose I shouldn't let perfect be the enemy of good, and good riddance to Twitter, indeed.
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I feel like scientists should move towards open source solutions ... I feel like most scientists are smart enough to launch a mastodon server, but well.
Bluesky is open source though
Being a scientist doesn't mean you have the technical knowledge to run a public facing server.
Most people who work as "scientists" aren't actually scientists.
Define "Scientist".
while I agree, the reality of the situation is that when you get down to comparing feature to feature, open source solutions tend to be technically inferior to proprietary ones.
I use linux because I hate microsoft, not because it's more feature complete than windows (it isn't).
I use lemmy because I hate u/spez, not because it's more feature complete than reddit (it isn't).
I use blender because it's free and it's actually kinda great, if all free and open source software was like blender, then it would be a no-brainer to use FOSS all of the time, and it would be easy to convince the normies to do the same.
also also
I'm using linux mint, i have minor complaints about it, but nothing worse than what microsoft is currently doing with windows. It's just different, and that bothers me. middle click paste is the bane of my existence, but other people swear by it. Just before I switched over, I learned about windows 10's built in emoji keyboard, and I really liked that. A year later (literally last week) I discovered a program that does most of what the windows emoji thingy did, and I can manually edit a keybind for the function to accomplish amost the same thing. FOSS, yay, it's free if you don't value your time in currency amounts. FOSS could be so good if only it were good.
I use linux because I hate microsoft, not because it’s more feature complete than windows (it isn’t).
lol... "Feature complete" if you want terrible features.
Most scientists aren't allowed to do stuff like that, or purely just don't have the time.
Or know how. Just because they are scientists doesn't mean that they are necessarily particularly computer literate. I once had to explain to a university professor that wireless electricity doesn't exist, and the Wi-Fi is only for internet. So yeah.
I mean, wireless electricity tech does exist, it just sucks and is horribly inefficient at any reasonable distance.
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Some of us have. There are a few science focused servers.
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Now all governments around the globe and other public services and we.are getting somewhere.
There's no excuse for using Xittter in 2025.
See you can be a really good scientist and not smart at the same time. Move to mastodon.
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