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Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms (www.dailyuw.com)
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[โ€“] rosco385@lemm.ee 19 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

In a word, audience. I'd prefer it if everyone went with Mastodon, but the audience on BlueSky is orders of magnitude bigger. I cross post to both, but only because I don't trust BlueSky not to do exactly what Twitter and Meta have done eventually.

[โ€“] doodledup@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

They might do the Twitter. Jack Dorsey has already left the board saying exactly that.