Adam Becker @freelanceastro@octodon.social
Freelance astrophysicist. Writing a book about why quantum physics is hard. #scicomm, #openscience. http://freelanceastro.com
the great thing about open source is that instead of screaming into the void and then receiving bad features you never asked for, everything is broken but you shrug it off because no one has any money anyways
It's actually really awesome that Mastodon attracted a shitload of users who largely aren't aware that the underlying GNUSocial platform is old.
You know why?
Because it means we can do this over and over.
Every time someone releases a new implementation with different-looking chrome on top, it can go through its own marketing and media cycle and garner new users. *And the network effect will be cumulative.*
@ryan Welcome! Are you running your own instance?
Surreal to search a relatively common hashtag and find that *nobody* has used it anywhere in the federated timeline (e.g. #science, #physics, #scicomm, #openaccess). Feels like going back in time.
