Knowledge production doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Every great scientific breakthrough is built on prior work, and an ongoing exchange with peers in the field. That’s why we need to address the threat of major publishers and platforms having an improper influence on how scientific knowledge is accessed—or outright suppressed. Infrastructure we rely on must be built in the open and on interoperable standards, and hostile to corporate (or governmental) takeovers. Universities and the science community are well situated to lead this fight.
  • Tangerine Twist@scribe.disroot.org
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    3 days ago

    When infrastructure is too centralized, gatekeepers gain new powers to capture, enshittify, and censor. The result is a system that becomes less useful, less stable, and with more costs put on access. Science thrives on sharing and access equity, and its future depends on a global and democratic revolt against predatory centralized platforms.

    Amen to that.

    • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I often talk about how I would like to see clubs and groups and orgs host their own federation instances and just have communities around what they do. This makes even more sense with universities. Everything should get published to the fediverse. Heck every lab should have its own community and only allow posts from members of the lab and moderate it.