The whole point of federation is that that can’t really happen, or at least they can fuck a single server, but not the whole ecosystem.

My question was about the “scientists are not allowed to” part. I’ve never heard to such restrictions, and been in the field for more than a decade.

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.

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).

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…

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.

Some of us have. There are a few science focused servers.

Yep. Friend browses slrpnk.net regularly.

You realise the only laws relating to restrictions on freedoms around trans issues are being implemented by conservatives, right?

Sometimes the normal just-staying-up-to-date news is basically indistinguishable though