Hi Robbie, you are of course correct - when you join a community, you are bound by their rules - so if you join a server that has rules against a particular subject, servers pushing those subjects are prone to get defederated.
The solution (AFAIK only available in Mastodon) is to setup your own server. You can either pay someone a small fee ( a few EUR/month) to host your server, or setup your own server if you are suitably savvy (I believe a small server can be run on a Raspberry PI or similar) and then you are lord of your own dominion. You get to decide who you federate with and who you see in your local various feeds. You can post about whatever takes your fancy. I realise that this particular phrase has certain Brexity connotations, but Mastodon's democratisation/decentralisation of social media really allows one to "take back control" 🫠 Best, Dave -- Dr David C. Briggs CSci MRSB (he/him) Principal Laboratory Research Scientist Signalling and Structural Biology Lab The Francis Crick Institute London, UK Working hours: Mon-Fri 0900-1700 == about.me/david_briggs<https://about.me/david_briggs> | OrcID<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9793-7339> | Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=DRKG5KwAAAAJ> ________________________________ From: Robbie Joosten <robbie_joos...@hotmail.com> Sent: 06 December 2023 07:56 To: David Briggs <david.bri...@crick.ac.uk>; CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> Subject: RE: [ccp4bb] Alternatives to X External Sender: Use caution. Hi David, Thank you for the Mastodon links. I like the idea of Mastodon, but many servers do blanket bans against other servers, particularly if these are very libertarian (e.g. have too much "Freeze Peach"). Your Mastodon 'heritage' seems to matter a lot. Nevertheless, it's good to see that engagement is growing. I find LinkedIn mostly useful for broadcasting, not really for engagement, so not really an X alternative. Personally, I think it is a shame so many scientists left Twitter/X (or said they did/would). Especially if this is for activistic reasons. Yes, it is quite unfiltered nowadays, but I actually like to have things in the open whether I agree with them or not. It puts more responsibility on the community and the community notes help with that. Purely scientific posts don't seem to suffer from the new management and your timeline keeps having useful stuff as long if you actually engage with (not just follow) users of interest. I do use Twitter as a private person, not on behalf of my work. I wonder if that makes a difference to my experience. It is important to note that many X alternatives are not available in the EU to avoid regulations (says something about those platforms). That makes Mastodon and X the only real options. That is, far behind the CCP4bb. Cheers, Robbie > -----Original Message----- > From: CCP4 bulletin board <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> On Behalf Of David > Briggs > Sent: Wednesday, December 6, 2023 08:19 > To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Alternatives to X > > Hi all, > > I did a little (and entirely unscientific) test on this with one of our > recent papers. > > Views : Linkedin came out on top. > > Engagement from other scientists : Mastodon. > > X didn't really do much, last I checked. > > There is a structural biology community on Mastodon and there are several > servers (a.k.a instances) that are science themed... > > at_struct_dot_bio > at_mstdn_dot_science > at_biologists_dot_social > at_cryoEM_dot_social > at_qoto_dot_org > at_fediverse_dot_science > > Some suppliers are beginning to appear (e.g. Quantifoil) and there is a > structural biology Mastodon group (struc...@a.gup.pe) that acts a bit like a > distribution list. > > Hth, > > Contact me off list if I can help get you started. > > Dave > @xtald...@xtaldave.net > > (Apologies if anyone got this twice - the original was pinged back as it > tripped > the spam filter, presumably the list of servers) > > > > > > Dr David C. Briggs CSci MRSB > > Principal Laboratory Research Scientist > > Signalling and Structural Biology Lab > > The Francis Crick Institute > > London, UK > > == > > about.me/david_briggs > <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fabout.me%2Fdavid_briggs&data=05%7C01%7C%7C04ab752fe0064d7e85a008dbf630dc81%7C4eed7807ebad415aa7a99170947f4eae%7C0%7C1%7C638374461962237452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=nfuQ7Xh1N0mMIdHKTu%2BMh%2Bf6Saoc%2Bjf1cE4Sy8UaBYQ%3D&reserved=0<http://about.me/david_briggs>> > > ________________________________ > > From: CCP4 bulletin board <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> on behalf of Marc > Graille <marc.grai...@polytechnique.edu> > Sent: Wednesday, December 6, 2023 6:33:06 AM > To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> > Subject: [ccp4bb] Alternatives to X > > > External Sender: Use caution. > > Dear colleagues, > > I take advantage of Tim's message about the fact that responsible people have > resigned from X. > I really enjoyed Twitter (which I discovered rather late) because it was a > great > tool for announcing news from my laboratory, but also for keeping abreast of > recent publications or pre-publications related to my research interests. > I notice that many scientists have deserted X in recent months. > > Can anyone suggest user-friendly alternatives used by the scientific > communities to announce recent publications or news in their fields? > > Best wishes, > > Marc > — > Marc GRAILLE, PhD > DR1-CNRS > Laboratoire de Biologie Structurale de la Cellule (BIOC; Ex-Laboratoire de > Biochimie) > UMR7654 du CNRS > > > Head of the team: “Translation and degradation of eukaryotic mRNAs” > > > ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE > 91128 PALAISEAU CEDEX > FRANCE > 📞: +33 (0)1 69 33 48 90 > > > > : marc.grai...@polytechnique.edu <mailto:marc.grai...@polytechnique.edu> / > Twitter : @GrailleLab > <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FGrailleLab&data=05%7C01%7C%7C04ab752fe0064d7e85a008dbf630dc81%7C4eed7807ebad415aa7a99170947f4eae%7C0%7C1%7C638374461962237452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=0Meo%2BacubWFJEiDK1wXC1HfG8iZjjYDgZ0KZgVCri10%3D&reserved=0<https://twitter.com/GrailleLab>> > https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fportail.polytechnique.edu%2Fbioc%2Fen%2Fresearch%2Fcoupling-between-&data=05%7C01%7C%7C04ab752fe0064d7e85a008dbf630dc81%7C4eed7807ebad415aa7a99170947f4eae%7C0%7C1%7C638374461962237452%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=hs1FpoRchvhcHBZS2j8PHZSKHTtOI2qkEDfzhyGSjJk%3D&reserved=0<https://portail.polytechnique.edu/bioc/en/research/coupling-between-> > translation-and-mrna-degradation-eukaryotes > — > > > > > Le 2 déc. 2023 à 10:15, Tim Grüne <tim.gru...@univie.ac.at > <mailto:tim.gru...@univie.ac.at> > a écrit : > > Hi Mark, > responsible people are resigning from X. > Cheers, > Tim > > Am 01.12.2023 23:24, schrieb Mark J. van Raaij: > > > just came across this critique of that paper on Twitter: > This exciting paper shows AI design of materials, robotic > synthesis. > 10s of new compounds in 17 days. But did they? This paper has > very > serious problems in materials characterisation. In my view it > should > never have got near publication. 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