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Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty (www.nature.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also, maybe smart people shouldn't be putting all their eggs into one privately owned basket.

I yelled this from the mountain top when everyone was moving their businesses off their own websites and onto Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, but I was the minority. Why you would put the fate of your company, or hell, your government, into the hands of a mega-corp that is run by a sociopathic megalomaniac is beyond me.

[โ€“] butterflyattack 3 points 1 year ago

TBF Facebook and Twitter etc were profitable platforms for a lot of businesses for a while. They obviously weren't going to last forever though so it would have been short-sighted not to plan for them dying off.