• BrikoX@lemmy.zipOP
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        1 year ago

        I would recommend following tags of the topics you are interested in and you will quickly find interesting people to follow.

        • Data's Cat Spot@startrek.website
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          Is there a way to find the most used tags?

          Sometimes I’ll start to tag something, and a billion different variations show up, so I don’t know which to use.

      • mitchell@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        I mean everyone is different and it depends on your interests. But with Mastodon you can search for and follow hashtags like accounts, then explore users who post with those hashtags.

    • RBG@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Scientists are not fast at abandoning established ways of communication. I mean they still publish the same way as a century ago, its just now digital too. It took a whole friggin’ pandemic for life science researchers to embrace the concept of pre-prints. 8 months to move from twitter sounds almost fast.

    • Sinister [none/use name, comrade/them]@hexbear.netB
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      1 year ago

      In STEM fields communication with others is key in improving your research. It is not easily to rebuild these “links”. Since Twitter was the biggest hen in the henhouse, it was a forgone conclusion.