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Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms (www.dailyuw.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Using social media is far removed from operating your own publicly available social media server.

This coming from someone who is trying to get more mastodon usage in higher ed. Profs aren't the ones who operate these things. Merely getting the approval to get the project started is an immense task.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 42 minutes ago)

University IT departments don't want to be running some random Mastodon on the server anyway. It's got nothing to do with the universities day-to-day operations it's just an extra thing that would be required on top of what they already do.

Also the only university professors who would actually be able to run the server themselves will be those in the computer science domain. A biologist isn't going to know how to do it any more than any random member of the public.