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Most of my hard science contacts (physics, biology etc) from my days in student government have moved to Bluesky. Newer academics seem to be starting out there and skipping Twitter entirely.

If you have heard of Metcalfe's Law, you'll understand why this is not good for Twitter long term.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe's_law

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So Bluesky for academia and X for tech and everyone else. I don’t think X is in trouble.

Scientist tend to form their own closed communities anyway.

It's like internet media is reaching a new level of maturity in that it is bifurcating into the tabloids and the serious magazines, like printed media was before.

In your analogy I suppose bluesky is the serious one? Have you spent any amount of time there?

They have the scientific community, so that's the direction they could be trending. But this is of course not settled yet.

>Scientist tend to form their own closed communities anyway.

Do you have a source for that?

> X for tech

SaaS, maybe. Tech, absolutely not.