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Disappointing to see the obsession with ideological purity and everywhere I go on the , even here on .
I know FB is not and yet suffers with the same problems.
I wonder why that happens and how can it be addressed? We need to build bridges and educate, not berate.

Wishing everyone a very Happy New Year 2021 ๐Ÿ˜Š ๐Ÿฅณ๐ŸŽ‰

Been on for less than a week and I've already had better conversations with strangers than on .
Could it scale well while maintaining low levels of toxcity?


How do people feel about clicking on links in or , even when you know they are not malicious?
I rarely click on them but I understand the need arising due to limitations of the platform-imposed brevity while expressing a complex idea.

Are and fundamentally incompatible?
Trust requires a large number of people to believe whereas privacy is, ex vi termini, personal.
How do you reduce the prevalence of nutjob theories while preventing mass manipulation by Big Brother- be it the government or private corporations?

It is a bit jarring at first to in a tiny social network, but is also refreshing to not chase the dopamine hit of endless scrolling and needless searches.
(I mean I still do as a force of habit but there is nothing)

๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Threats of a Replication Crisis in Empirical Computer Science

"While computer science research has increased its use of experimental methods, the scientific community's faith in these methods has been eroded in several areas, leading to a 'replication crisis' in which experimental results cannot be reproduced and published findings are mistrusted. [...]"

m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2020/

#science #replicationCrisis #reproducibility #openscience #publishing #openaccess

All of you who are building โ€alternatives to goodreadsโ€!

Please keep in mind that
- not all #books are published in english and
- there are translations of books and
- people may read several different language versions of the same book, even at the same time.

Brought to you by a #goodreads user who can't mark two different language versions of a book as being โ€currently readingโ€ simultaneously.


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Hoping to have rich, productive and kind conversations on this platform ๐Ÿ˜Š

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