Nature has just put out correspondence that calls for scholarly institutes to join the #fediverse, and start their own #mastodon instances.
Together with that, the writers put out a longer article, 'Mastodon over Mammon', that explains the argument in greater detail, and is worth reading.
Great work by @brembs et al, which points to the core issue: the private ownership of public commons.
Full version:
https://zenodo.org/record/7652771
Nature Correspondence:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00486-3
Together with that, the writers put out a longer article, 'Mastodon over Mammon', that explains the argument in greater detail, and is worth reading.
Great work by @brembs et al, which points to the core issue: the private ownership of public commons.
Full version:
https://zenodo.org/record/7652771
Nature Correspondence:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00486-3
Mastodon over Mammon - Towards publicly owned scholarly knowledge
Twitter is in turmoil and the scholarly community on the platform is once again starting to migrate. As with the early internet, scholarly organizations are at the forefront of developing and implementing a decentralized alternative to Twitter, Masto…Zenodo