I just stopped looking at Twitter, which I find increasingly toxic, and gave BlueSky a try. Bluesky is vastly calmer, more pleasant, friendlier, and more interesting than Twitter. I see INaturalist has an account on Bsky, but has yet to post anything. At the very least, INat’s social media team s…

[image] eyekosaeder: ranting about my noisy neighbour just read that on Facebook (glad we don’t live on THAT street, but)

In my experience your experience with any social media depends on how strictly you train the algorithm on your preferences. They all have obnoxious algorithms that try to feed you things that are provocative in one way or another. I have to constantly tell Instagram not to show me certain things, wh…

Bluesky doesn’t use algorithms to populate your feed. There is a “discover” tab, which seems to recommend people who are linked to people I follow, and you can also do a keyword search. But my “feed” is 100% all and only posts from people I follow. I have had a few sketchy accounts follow me, but yo…

[image] jnstuart: what does an X or Bluesky or Mastodon provide to iNatters that this forum does not? In the past science Twitter had a lot of SciComm accounts that would be out there communicating what was going on in various sciences with accounts run by scientists. And there were a lot of …

[image] jnstuart: what does an X or Bluesky or Mastodon provide to iNatters that this forum does not? -it allows you to talk more in the greater context, not just limited to things mostly about INat -it isn’t moderated the same way. This forum has a lot of strict rules about ‘staying on topi…

All true. I’d add that social media other than INaturalist are useful for getting the word out about something. If you just published a book or article, if you are organizing an event, if you have a good idea that you want people to know about, if you have a really amazing citizen science/nature w…

[image] jnstuart: Honest question here: what does an X or Bluesky or Mastodon provide to iNatters that this forum does not? It’s an opportunity to engage with people (a) who aren’t already deeply engaged with nature, and/or (b) who aren’t already using iNaturalist, and/or (c) who aren’t alrea…

Thanks for the feedback, everyone. Might be a reflection of my age — I graduated from university before the internet and social media existed — but I’ve been seeking ways to spend less time looking at a screen, especially since I’m soon to retire. However if these different sites are valuable to o…

I’m giving it a try in Bluesky ( https://bsky.app/profile/nature-obs.bsky.social ) although I wasn’t on Twitter even before. I have to say I love the Nudivember trend (month appreciation of nudibranchs) and see there are many people with shared interests. I use it so far more as sharing some reflecti…

[image] adrien_ferrand: Social media just seems to be an excuse to catch your attention after all [image] jnstuart: I’ve never used X or its counterparts/competitors, so the usefulness of these social media platforms is kind of a mystery to me Social media is a tool. Like a hammer, it …

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