Post #1331555
2026-02-08 23:36 UTC
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This was always a risk for preprint servers, for similar reasons. Unless there's a proliferation of them, which creates a second order information overload problem; finding the various servers and sorting through them for the quality of what they publish.
I think this parallel is worth exploring, because preprint servers came into existence for similar reasons to Indymedia newswires; hacking around an oligopoly of corporate publishing gatekeepers.
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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz 2026-02-08 23:42
(4/4) Ironically, Indymedia was mostly replaced by corporate social media platforms. There's a parallel here too, with proprietary academic networking sites like ResearchGate and Academia.edu. In both cases this adds to the information overload and quality control problems. Now this is happening again with LLMs. I suspect that as with replacing social media with social networks like the fediverse, the solution for news and scholarship lies in media built around relationships, not platforms.