When infrastructure is too centralized, gatekeepers gain new powers to capture, enshittify, and censor. The result is a system that becomes less useful, less stable, and with more costs put on access. Science thrives on sharing and access equity, and its future depends on a global and democratic revolt against predatory centralized platforms.
Amen to that.
Really, most if not everything should be decntralized
Sure. Let me know when science use a decentralized protocol. IANA is centralized.
I agree, and they desperately need science communicators. Every department of every university needs people who are qualified scientists who can also speak to the public about what they do.
Decentralization is the protection, but the remedy is education. Having freely available information isn't enough on its own.
As a scientist, we desperately need it. Corporate ownership of publishing platforms is driving science down extremely badly, while exploiting all parties besides themselves.
Many folks at our institution, including myself, simply cannot afford to publish high-rank open-access articles, and with paid articles, our reach will be minimized, especially now that Sci-Hub does not automatically scrape articles after 2021.
The latter also strikes the other way, as many recent articles are simply unavailable if your institution is not shilling millions to subscribe to all possible publishers. So often a seemingly great article addressing exactly the specific part required is behind a paywall by the unavailable publisher.
Finally, plenty of older articles are lost to time and cannot be found because the hosting platforms have gone down and pirates didn't step in timely.
All in all, fuck publishers and let's go fix that shit ASAP. Science is absolutely destroyed by greed nowadays.
since the only way to get experience is in universities its usually unavailable to people who cant get thier foot in the door. definitely someway around this. and most jobs are asking from said university labs as experience.
The link to "open science" doesn't work for me - guessing it blocks VPNs which is hilarious for a supposed open discussion / decentralization thing
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