The academic meme community here is absolutely ace! But what I would also like is to communicate with other academics in my field and share the latest publication and talk about it a bit if possible with peers.
I used to use Twitter (back when it was called Twitter) to post about my new publications. Now I use Mastodon. Say what you wish about the negative aspect of algorithm based feeds, I am currently finding it hard to connect with other academics whose profiles may be dispersed in the wide fediverse.
Long story short: How do I disseminate my work and connect with other academic peers in my field on the fediverse?
I’m study biosystems and circular economy.
Honestly it could be worse. Moving from Xitter to Bullshitsky is at least taking some (temporary) steps of progress towards moving to the Fediverse.
The trick is to support them to do more than that before the cycle repeats.
I am a child of the generation obliterated by half solutions and illusions of reform, I don’t disagree with you in general but in some specific situations such as this I wholeheartedly believe temporary insufficient solutions that participate in a collective delusion of longterm viability are extremely dangerous and inevitably produce suffocating cynicism in people.