I’m pretty sure there are a handful of technically literate scientists who are able to install servers lmao.

while I agree, the reality of the situation is that when you get down to comparing feature to feature, open source solutions tend to be technically inferior to proprietary ones.

Yes. But there is nothing bluesky does that mastodon doesn’t. It’s a platform to write short text posts and have it viewed by other people. It’s not rocket science.

Being a scientist kinda means to me you’re able to follow a very easy to understand guide to install mastodon on …

I feel like scientists should move towards open source solutions … I feel like most scientists are smart enough to launch a mastodon server, but well.

I don’t think the question is if there was one.

The question is, would anyone be surprised if there was?