@samharrison7 The consensus in most of the academic community is that #Mastodon doesn't have a good enough on-boarding process and it leaves users feeling isolated on little islands. It would be a shame for #science and the potential future of #ScienceCommunication if the opportunity is missed to get most scientists onto a free, open, federated platform, but alas I feel it is unlikely it will happen unless some serious changes are made.

I will epilog by saying I quite enjoy Mastodon, but that is only because a good chunk of the #FOSS and #RSEng community seem to have made it here, and I have put quite a bit of time into learning how it works.