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1. Pedro J. Hdez (ecosdelfuturo@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 12:11:13 UTC Pedro J. Hdez

   Weren't scientists supposed to be the best at projecting the future?

   "For many researchers, the move to Bluesky has been about gaining back control over what appears in their timelines."

   https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03784-6

   #BlueSky #Scientist #TwitterMigration

   • Ricardo (rgbes@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 12:11:13 UTC Ricardo

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     @ecosdelfuturo scientists are regular humans that became specialists on just one topic, and as such are subject to all the biases and excuses that the rest of society has. Remaining in the dead bird site is morally unacceptable, moving from there to the new crypto bro heaven is intellectually stupid. As the old saying goes, humans are the only animal that stumble in the same stone twice.

   • Ricardo (rgbes@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 12:55:15 UTC Ricardo

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     @ecosdelfuturo sure, the fediverse has lots of problems, but society have even more with so many people willing to trade democracy for a bit of (apparent) comfort

   • Pedro J. Hdez (ecosdelfuturo@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 12:55:16 UTC Pedro J. Hdez

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     • Ricardo

     @RGBes Indeed. But we also have to admit that the fediverse has its own shortcomings and most people are looking for known contacts and maximum dissemination of their content and the fediverse right now, for most, does not provide what they are looking for.

   • Ricardo (rgbes@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 13:10:34 UTC Ricardo

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     @ecosdelfuturo That shows that psychology and sociology are much more difficult sciences than physics. But then come some physicists to say that all other sciences are just applied physics... humans... oh well!

   • Pedro J. Hdez (ecosdelfuturo@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 13:10:35 UTC Pedro J. Hdez

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     • Ricardo

     @RGBes And the truth is that I do not understand how climate scientists, many of them advocating for unprecedented social change, are not able to grasp the importance of the good use of technology in that social change. And strangely they also don't seem to understand the network effect and the drag they could cause by moving to the appropriate network. But hey, this is a value judgment rather than an argument.