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what are platforms you sciency people use to communicate? (piefed.social)
submitted 7 months ago* by to c/science@lemmy.world
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i ask because Bonfire is a free libre open source project proposing a federated social media approach^q^and it seems cool... but i can't join the pilot program since i'm not in a school or such organization.

Idk what's already in use though so this is a joint shoutout and a question. Like, what way do you use to chat about nerdy stuff rn? Does this Bonfire.social project fill a niche you're missing alot in?

[1] https://openscience.network/pilots/

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[–] 3 points 7 months ago

That's overkill for my needs.

Forums were the main thing everyone used 10+ years ago. Then Facebook & Reddit started to steal people away. But now that those big companies have shown how dangerous they are, I've tried to go back to forums as much as possible.

I use Lemmy too, but the lemmy software is still early in development compared to forum software. So I started up a forum instead of a Lemmy instance: https://forum.humanmicrobiome.info/

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