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VeritaSimulacra t1_iv2izix wrote

Reply to comment by cyborgsnowflake in [D] Sigmoid Social, an alternative to Twitter by and for the AI Community by regalalgorithm

From an user standpoint, a lot of the people that I followed (especially in scientific communities) are less active (or all together off the platform). The only value of twitter (for me) was the scientific discourse, so recreating that seems like a good goal.

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cyborgsnowflake t1_iv2kd2n wrote

I agree. Twitter is awful for scientific discourse by its technical nature let alone the political noise. Which is why it puzzles me why some people use it for that purpose let alone some petty political dislike of Musk being a big factor over all the consistent relevant negatives that have been present for years.

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VeritaSimulacra t1_iv2ksan wrote

Yea, twitter was a poor platform for scientific discourse (honestly it's not a great platform for anything other than mediocre memes) I guess it was that way just because people were already on it. I'm hopeful platforms will spring up which provide more fruitful discussions. I'm not sure if mastadon is it, but it seems to be pretty good so far (smaller, but more focused user based, plus decentralization is always appealing for some ML folks who are into the crypto, less control sort of stuff).

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Veneck t1_iv5s84h wrote

It has a more surgical approach to connecting users to content, then, say, Reddit. That's mostly what it has going for it.

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